Friends of the Lower Greenbrier River (FOLGR)

Mammals:


Opossum
  • White-tailed Deer
  • Black Bear
  • Grey & Red Fox
  • Bobcat
  • Beaver
  • Hare & Snowshoe Hare
  • Eastern Cottontail
  • Grey & Fox Squirrel
  • Opossum
  • Striped & Spotted Skunk
  • Otter
  • Mink
  • Least & Longtail Weasel
  • Fisher
  • Woodchuck
  • Wood Rat
  • Muskrat
  • Mouse & Rat
  • Masked, Smoky, and Pigmy Shrew
  • Vole & Yellownose Vole
  • Bat, Indian Bat, & Small-footed Bat

Fish:



  • Channel and Flathead Catfish
  • Bluegill
  • Smallmouth & Largemouth Bass
  • Rockbass "Redeye"
  • Carp
  • Brook, Golden, and Rainbow Trout

Reptiles:

Nothern Watersnake
  • Snapping, Spring Softshell, & Hog Turtle
  • Northern Pine Snake
  • Timber Rattlesnake
  • Northern Watersnake

Amphibians:

Eastern Hellbender

  • Longtailed & Ravine Salamander
  • Mud Puppy
  • Frog, Bullfrog & Green Frog
  • Toad

Birds:

American Kestrel
  • Goose
  • Duck & Wood Duck
  • Bald Eagle
  • Peregrine Falcon
  • American Kestrel
  • Merlin
  • Osprey
  • Sharp Shinned, Common Night, Cooper's, Red-Shouldered & Marsh Hawks
  • Yellow, Black & King Rails
  • Black & Turkey Vultures
  • Plover, Piping & Upland Plovers
  • Woodcock
  • Snipe
  • Common Tern
  • Olive-sided Flycatcher
  • Red-throated Loon
  • Red-necked Grebe
  • Double-breasted Cormorant
  • Black-crowned Night Heron
  • American Bittern
  • Canvas Back Duck
  • Sandpiper
  • Saw Whet, Barn, & Short-eared Owl
  • Red-headed & Hairy Woodpeckers
  • Swainson's, Bachman's & Yellow Warblers
  • Cliff Swallow
  • Bewick's Wren
  • Yellow Billed Cuckoo
  • Loggerhead Shrike
  • Yellow-breasted Chat
  • Grasshopper & Helslow's Sparrows
  • Eastern Bluebird


Trees & Shrubs:                                      

 Sassafras

  • Shagbark & Pignut Hickories
  • Butternut
  • White, Red, Black, Post, Blackjack, Southern Red & Chestnut Oaks
  • Red & Sugar Maple 
  • Eastern White, Short Leaf, Pitch, Virginia & Table Mountain Pine
  • Cucumber Tree
  • Umbrella & Fraser's Magnolias
  • Sycamore
  • Beech
  • Eastern Hemlock
  • Tulip Poplar
  • Dogwood & Flowering Dogwood
  • White Ash
  • Yellow Birch
  • Blue Beech
  • Persimmon 
  • Sourwood
  • Red Cedar Redbud
  • Wild Cherry
  • Basswood
  • Black Gum
  • Black Locust
  • Buckeye
  • Sassafras
  • Alder
  • Hawthorne
  • Wild Blackberry
  • Huckleberry
  • Wild Rose
  • Rhododendron
  • Laurel
  • Poison Ivy 
  • Virginia Creeper
  • Greenbrier
  • Sumac
  • Trillium
  • Violet
  • Orchid
  • Synandra
  • Fern
  • Spicebush
  • Pawpaw
  • Hydrangea
  • Wild Grape
  • Cross Vine 
  • Holly
  • Hop Hornbeam
  • Service Berry 
  • Blueberry
  • Agrimony
  • Early Meadow Rue
  • Hog-peanut
  • Enchanter's
  • Nightshade
  • Bushclover
  • Aster
  • Pink Azaelea
  • Mountain Laurel

Invasive Species

These are species which are not native to the FOLGR area and pose a threat to the natural plant and wildlife listed above. 

The Dirty Dozen

  • Kudzu
  • Japanese Knotweed
  • Water Shield
  • Crown Vetch
  • Japanese Stilsgrass
  • Garlic Mustard
  • Tree-Of-Heaven
  • Reed Canary Grass
  • Mile-A-Minute
  • Purple Loosestrife
  • Multiflora Rose
  • Yellow Iris
  • Silver and Bighead Carp