The Pennsylvania Game Commission is joining a multi-state effort to help repopulate the Allegheny Woodrat.State wildlife officials announced Monday that they ar
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“Woodrat populations have declined so much that they have become isolated from one another. That leads to low genetic diversity and eventually to inbreeding, which is yet another factor in population decline,” said Kate Amspacher Otterbein, Mammal Recovery Specialist at the Pennsylvania Game Commission.
Officials say the first woodrat that was introduced to the program is from the Mifflin County area and has given birth to three pups. “We previously had Allegheny woodrats and were quite successful at breeding them so I’m optimistic about having lots of pups to release into the wild,” said Erin Cantwell Grimm, Mammal Curator at the Maryland Zoo.
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