"John Burroughs, son of his brother Curtis, he named it ""Woodchuck Lodge"" after what he deemed were pesky woodchucks who had a cordon of woodchuck holes all over the nearby fields. John's nephew, John (the son of Curtis), ran the farm from the main house."" It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1962. Woodchuck Lodge Woodchuck Lodge, also known as John Burroughs Memorial State Historic Site is in Roxbury in the western Catskills of Delaware County, New York, was a summertime home of naturalist John Burroughs. He is buried here, at the foot of a rock on which he"
"of woodcock inhabiting North America. Although classified with the sandpipers and shorebirds in Family Scolopacidae, the American woodcock lives mainly in upland settings. Its many folk names include timberdoodle, bogsucker, night partridge, brush snipe, hokumpoke, becasse, twitterpate, little gomer, fiddle squeak, worm sabre, wafflebird, whipperwon't, bumblebee chicken, billdad, mud needle, prairie turtle, and crazy straw. The population of the American woodcock has fallen by an average of slightly more than 1% annually since the 1960s. Most authorities attribute this decline to a loss of habitat caused by forest maturation and urban development. In 2008 wildlife biologists and conservationists released an"
"Groundhog The groundhog (""Marmota monax""), also known as a woodchuck, is a rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots. It was first scientifically described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. The groundhog is also referred to as a chuck, wood-shock, groundpig, whistlepig, whistler, thickwood badger, Canada marmot, monax, moonack, weenusk, red monk and, among French Canadians in eastern Canada, siffleux. The name ""thickwood badger"" was given in the Northwest to distinguish the animal from the prairie badger. Monax (""Móonack"") is an Algonquian name of the woodchuck, which meant ""digger"" (cf. Lenape ""monachgeu"")."
"American woodcock The American woodcock (""Scolopax minor""), sometimes colloquially referred to as the timberdoodle, is a small chunky shorebird species found primarily in the eastern half of North America. Woodcocks spend most of their time on the ground in brushy, young-forest habitats, where the birds' brown, black, and gray plumage provides excellent camouflage. Because of the male woodcock's unique, beautiful courtship flights, the bird is welcomed as a harbinger of spring in northern areas. It is also a popular game bird, with about 540,000 killed annually by some 133,000 hunters in the U.S. The American woodcock is the only species"
"and the wood bison (""B. b. athabascae"")—the larger of the two and having a taller, square hump. Furthermore, the plains bison has been suggested to consist of a northern plains (""B. b. montanae"") and a southern plains (""B. b. bison"") subspecies, bringing the total to three. However, this is generally not supported. The wood bison is one of the largest wild species of bovid in the world, surpassed by only the Asian gaur and wild water buffalo. It is the largest extant land animal in the Americas. The American bison is the national mammal of the United States. The term"
"American black bear (""Ursus americanus""), woodland caribou (""Rangifer tarandus caribou""), barren-ground caribou (""Rangifer tarandus arcticus""), Canada lynx (""Lynx canadensis""), grey wolf (""Canis lupus""), American beaver (""Castor canadensis""), North American river otter (""Lontra canadensis""), American marten (""Martes americana""), stoat (""Mustela erminea""), fisher (""Martes pennanti""), muskrat (""Ondatra zibethica""), snowshoe hare (""Lepus americanus""), southern red-backed vole (""Myodes gapperi""), American red squirrel (""Tamiasciurus hudsonicus"") and least chipmunk (""neotamius minimus""). Birds include ducks, geese, American white pelican (""Pelecanus erythrorhynchos""), sandhill crane (""Grus canadensis""), spruce grouse (""Falcipennis canadensis""), sharp-tailed grouse (""Tympahuchus phasianellus""), willow grouse (""Lagopus lagopus""), common nighthawk (""Chordeiles minor""), red-tailed hawk (""Buteo jamaicensis""), common raven"
"bits of stone. Woodchuck remains were found in the Indian mounds at Aztalan, Jefferson County, Wisconsin. Robert Frost's poem ""A Drumlin Woodchuck"" uses the imagery of a groundhog dug into a small ridge as a metaphor for his emotional reticence. Groundhog The groundhog (""Marmota monax""), also known as a woodchuck, is a rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots. It was first scientifically described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. The groundhog is also referred to as a chuck, wood-shock, groundpig, whistlepig, whistler, thickwood badger, Canada marmot, monax, moonack, weenusk, red monk"
"The etymology of the name ""woodchuck"" is unrelated to wood or chucking. It stems from an Algonquian (possibly Narragansett) name for the animal, ""wuchak"". The similarity between the words has led to the popular tongue-twister: The groundhog prefers open country and the edges of woodland, and is rarely far from a burrow entrance. Marmota monax has a wide geographic range. It is typically found in low elevation forests, small woodlots, fields, pastures and hedgerows. It constructs dens in well drained soil, and most have summer and winter dens. Human activity has increased food access and abundance allowing ""M. monax"" to"
"Wood bison The wood bison (""Bison bison athabascae"") or mountain bison (often called the wood buffalo or mountain buffalo), is a distinct northern subspecies or ecotype of the American bison. Its original range included much of the boreal forest regions of Alaska, Yukon, western Northwest Territories, northeastern British Columbia, northern Alberta, and northwestern Saskatchewan. The term ""buffalo"" is sometimes considered to be a misnomer for this animal, as it is only distantly related to either of the two ""true buffalo"", the Asian water buffalo and the African buffalo. However, ""bison"" is a Greek word meaning ox-like animal, while ""buffalo"" originated"
"Young groundhogs may be called chucklings. Other marmots, such as the yellow-bellied and hoary marmots, live in rocky and mountainous areas, but the groundhog is a lowland creature. It is found through much of the eastern United States across Canada and into Alaska The groundhog is the largest sciurid in its geographical range. Adults are 16 to 20 inches (40–50 cm) long, including a six inch (15 cm) tail. A large woodchuck thought to weigh twenty pounds when carried was exactly half that weight when weighed by scale. Woodchuck weight ranges from five to twelve pounds. Extremely large individuals may"
"based on the beaver fur trade. As such, the seal of New Netherland featured the beaver; likewise, the coats of arms of Albany, New York and New York City included the beaver. North American beaver The North American beaver (""Castor canadensis"") is one of two extant beaver species. It is native to North America and introduced to Patagonia in South America and some European countries (e.g. Finland). In the United States and Canada, the species is often referred to simply as ""beaver"", though this causes some confusion because another distantly related rodent, ""Aplodontia rufa"", is often called the ""mountain beaver""."
"call resembles the bleat of a sheep and lasts from one to three seconds. Woodhouse's toad is found in North America at altitudes of up to . Its range extends from Mexico in the south to Washington in the north. In the United States it is found in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. In the western part of its range it is typically found in lowland riparian corridors, wooded land besides streams and rivers. At higher altitudes it inhabits wet meadows, ponds, reservoirs and"
"throughout the region, while the southern flying squirrel and northern flying squirrel are more common in the southeast, the American red squirrel is more common in the northeast. The least weasel is native to the Appalachian Mountains. The wild boar is the wild ancestor of the domestic pig and has spread through much of the southeastern region as an invasive species. The Canada lynx is found in parts of New England. Species of bats found throughout the east includes the eastern pipistrelle, silver-haired bat, eastern red bat, hoary bat, big brown bat, little brown bat, northern long-eared myotis, and in"
"otter (""Enhydra lutris""), bearded seal (""Erignathus barbatus""), donkey (""Equus asinus""), cougars (""Felis concolor coryi"", ""Felis concolor stanleyana""), bobcat (""Felis rufus floridanus""), Atlantic white-sided dolphins (""Lagenorhynchus acutus""), guanaco (""Lama guanicoe""), alpaca (""Vicugna pacos""), otter (""Lutra lutra""), wild dog (""Lycaon pictus""), Bartels's spiny rat (""Maxomys bartelsii""), Musschenbroek's spiny rat (""Maxomys musschenbroekii""), prairie vole (""Microtus ochrogaster""), common European weasel (""Mustela nivalis""), mink (""Mustela vison""), muskrat (""Ondatra zibethica""), mountain goats (""Oreamnos americanus""), Grant's gazelle (""Nanger granti""), slow loris (""Nycticebus coucang""), African lions (""Panthera leo""), leopard (""Panthera pardus""), tiger (""Panthera tigris""), baboon (""Papio cynocephalus""), Pacific harbor seal (""Phoca vitulina richardsi"") chamois (""Rupicapra rupicapra""), Polynesian rat"
"moth infestations have eroded the dominance of oak forests. Other common trees and plants include chestnut, maple, tulip poplar, mountain laurel, milkweed, daisies, and many species of ferns. The largest areas of wilderness are along the Atlantic coast and in the western mountains, which are likely home to the largest populations of trillium wildflowers in North America. Mammals include white-tailed deer, black bear, beaver, bobcat, coyote, raccoon, groundhog, Virginia opossum, gray fox, red fox, river otter, snowshoe hare, southern bog lemming, common eastern chipmunk, common mink, common muskrat, cotton mouse, eastern spotted skunk, striped skunk, fox squirrel, gray squirrel, northern"
"moorhen, pochard, woodlark, little grebe, mistle thrush, song thrush, curlew, magpie, swift, greenfinch, oriole, Cetti's warbler, nightingale, little bustard, great crested grebe, shelduck, pied flycatcher, spotted flycatcher, common flycatcher, tufted duck, pochar, ferruginous duck, azure-winged magpie, buzzard, common buzzard, common scoter, short-toed lark, stonechat, merganser, firecrest, gull-billed tern, siskin, water rail, bunting, reed bunting, black-bellied sandgrouse. Deer, rabbit, European hedgehog, genet, wild cat, wild boar, iberian lynx (endangered species), dormouse, mongoose, bat, cave bat, greater horseshoe bat, buzzard bat, shrew, otter, mouse, polecat, fox, badger, water rat, black rat, lesser noctule. The Iberian lynx, whose habitat is restricted to the"
"species to go extinct, ""B. occidentalis"", was succeeded at 3,000 BC by ""B. bison"". Of the two surviving species, the American bison, ""B. bison"", found only in North America, is the more numerous. Although commonly known as a buffalo in the United States and Canada, it is only distantly related to the true buffalo. The North American species is composed of two subspecies, the Plains bison, ""B. b. bison"", and the Wood bison, ""B. b. athabascae"", which is the namesake of Wood Buffalo National Park in Canada. A third subspecies, the Eastern Bison (""B. b. pennsylvanicus"") is no longer considered"
"North American beaver The North American beaver (""Castor canadensis"") is one of two extant beaver species. It is native to North America and introduced to Patagonia in South America and some European countries (e.g. Finland). In the United States and Canada, the species is often referred to simply as ""beaver"", though this causes some confusion because another distantly related rodent, ""Aplodontia rufa"", is often called the ""mountain beaver"". Other vernacular names, including American beaver and Canadian beaver, distinguish this species from the other extant beaver species, ""Castor fiber"", which is native to Eurasia. The North American beaver is an official"
"Grizzly bear The grizzly bear (""Ursus arctos"" ssp.) is a large population of the brown bear inhabiting North America. Scientists generally do not use the name grizzly bear but call it the North American brown bear. Multiple morphological forms sometimes recognized as subspecies exist, including the mainland grizzly (""Ursus arctos horribilis""), Kodiak bear (""U. a. middendorffi""), peninsular grizzly (""U. a. gyas""), and the recently extinct California grizzly (""U. a. californicus""†) and Mexican grizzly bear (""U. a. nelsoni""†). On average bears near the coast tend to be larger while inland grizzlies tend to be smaller. The Ussuri brown bear (""U. a."
"most common sandpiper in North America. The American Woodcock Conservation Plan presents regional action plans linked to Bird Conservation Regions (BCRs), fundamental biological units recognized by the U.S. North American Bird Conservation Initiative. The Wildlife Management Institute (WMI) oversees regional habitat initiatives intended to boost the American woodcock's population by protecting, renewing, and creating habitat throughout the species' range. Creating young-forest habitat for American woodcock helps more than 50 other species of wildlife that need early successional habitat during part or all of their life cycles. These include relatively common animals such as white-tailed deer, snowshoe hare, moose, bobcat, wild"
"in the central parts of the U.S., including the fox squirrel, eastern gray squirrel, Franklin's ground squirrel, southern flying squirrel, and the thirteen-lined ground squirrel. Voles include the prairie vole, woodland vole and the meadow vole. The plains pocket gopher lives throughout the Great Plains. Shrews include the cinereus shrew, southeastern shrew, North American least shrew, and the Elliot's short-tailed shrew. In the Appalachian Mountains and the Eastern United States are many animals that live in forested habitats. They include deer, rabbits, rodents, squirrels, hares, woodpeckers, owls, foxes and bears. The New England region is particularly famous for its crab"
"horned owl (""Bubo virginianus""), northern cardinal (""Cardinalis cardinalis""), northern flicker (""Colaptes auratus""), red-bellied woodpecker (""Melanerpes carolinus""), red-headed woodpecker (""Melanerpes erythrocephalus""), red-shouldered hawk (""Buteo lineatus""), red-tailed hawk (""Buteo jamaicensis""), red-winged blackbird (""Agelaius phoeniceus""), ruby-throated hummingbird (""Archilochus colubris""), sharp-shinned hawk (""Accipiter striatus""), starling (""Sturnus vulgaris""), summer tanager (""Piranga rubra""), Swainson’s thrush (""Catharus ustulatus""), white-throated sparrow (""Zanotrichia albicollis""), wood thrush (""Hylocichla mustelina""), yellow-bellied sapsucker (""Sphyrapicus varius""), Mammals Beaver (genus ""Castor""), bobcat (""Felis rufa""), common raccoon (""Procyon lotor""), coyote (""Canis latrans""), deer, feral hog, grey fox (""Urocyon cinereoagenteus""), muskrat (""Ondatra zibethicus""), north American river otter (""Lutra Canadensis""), red fox (""Vulpes fulva""), skunk, squirrel. Reptiles"
"states of Sonora and Chihuahua in northern Mexico. This species was introduced to the Argentine and Chilean Tierra del Fuego, as well as Finland, France, Poland and Russia. The North American beavers prefer the (inner) bark of aspen and poplar but will also take birch, maple, willow, alder, black cherry, red oak, beech, ash, hornbeam and occasionally pine and spruce. They will also eat cattails, water lilies and other aquatic vegetation, especially in the early spring (and contrary to widespread belief, they do not eat fish). These animals are often trapped for their fur. During the early 19th century, trapping"
"white-tailed deer, raccoon, eastern spotted skunk, striped skunk, long-tailed weasel, and the American badger and beaver. The wild boar is common in the South, while the American mink lives in every central state with the exception of Texas. The least weasel is found around the Great Lakes as well as states such as Nebraska, the Dakotas, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. The gray fox is found in Iowa, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and also around the Great Lakes region. The ring-tailed cat is found in the southern region, including in Texas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. There are many species of squirrels"
"Northern shoveler The northern shoveler (; ""Spatula clypeata""), known simply in Britain as the shoveler, is a common and widespread duck. It breeds in northern areas of Europe and Asia and across most of North America, wintering in southern Europe, Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and Central, and northern South America. It is a rare vagrant to Australia. In North America, it breeds along the southern edge of Hudson Bay and west of this body of water, and as far south as the Great Lakes west to Colorado, Nevada, and Oregon. The Northern shoveler is one of the species"
"( or ) (""Canis latrans""), also known as the American jackal or the prairie wolf, is a species of canid found throughout North and Central America, ranging from Panama in the south, north through Mexico, the United States and Canada. It occurs as far north as Alaska and all but the Arctic portions of Canada. The subspecies Roosevelt elk (""Cervus canadensis roosevelti"") occurs in the park. Order: Artiodactyla, Family: Cervidae Occurrence: Open forests, meadows - C The elk, or wapiti (""Cervus canadensis""), is one of the largest species of deer in the world and one of the largest mammals in"
"Virginia opossum The Virginia opossum (""Didelphis virginiana""), commonly known as the North American opossum, is a marsupial found in North America. It is the only marsupial found north of Mexico. In the United States, it is typically referred to simply as a possum. It is a solitary and nocturnal animal about the size of a domestic cat. It is a successful opportunist. It is familiar to many North Americans as it is often seen near towns, rummaging through garbage cans. The Virginia opossum is the original animal named ""opossum"". The word comes from Algonquian ""wapathemwa"" meaning ""white animal"". Colloquially, the"
"Wolverine The wolverine () (also spelled wolverene), ""Gulo gulo"" (""Gulo"" is Latin for ""glutton""), also referred to as the glutton, carcajou, skunk bear, or quickhatch, is the largest land-dwelling species of the family Mustelidae. It is a stocky and muscular carnivore, more closely resembling a small bear than other mustelids. A solitary animal, it has a reputation for ferocity and strength out of proportion to its size, with the documented ability to kill prey many times larger than itself. The wolverine is found primarily in remote reaches of the Northern boreal forests and subarctic and alpine tundra of the Northern"
"Boreal woodland caribou The boreal woodland caribou (""Rangifer tarandus caribou""), also known as woodland caribou, woodland caribou (boreal group) and forest-dwelling caribou, is a North American subspecies of the reindeer (or the caribou in North America) with the vast majority of animals in Canada. Unlike the Porcupine caribou and barren-ground caribou, boreal woodland caribou are primarily, but not always, sedentary. The boreal woodland caribou is the largest of the caribou subspecies and is darker in colour than the barren-ground caribou. Valerius Geist, specialist on large North American mammals, described the ""true"" woodland caribou as ”the uniformly dark, small-manned type with"
"spruce, fir, birch, maple, and beech are found. The mammal species found throughout the Northeast United States are similar to those of the Southeast and include whitetail deer, black bear, bobcat, gray fox, raccoon, eastern gray squirrel, fox squirrel, eastern chipmunk, white-footed mouse, pine vole, and cotton mouse. The Northeast has a very abundant bird population. Common game birds found in the region are turkey, ruffed grouse, bobwhite, and mourning dove. Other non-game birds found in abundance include the cardinal, Carolina wren, wood thrush, summer tanager, red-eyed vireo, blue-gray gnatcatcher, and tufted titmouse. In the mountain range other commonly found"
"Wood thrush The wood thrush (""Hylocichla mustelina"") is a North American passerine bird. It is closely related to other thrushes such as the American robin and is widely distributed across North America, wintering in Central America and southern Mexico. The wood thrush is the official bird of the District of Columbia. The wood thrush is a medium-sized thrush, with brown upper parts with mottled brown and white underparts. The male and female are similar in appearance. The song of the male is often cited as being the most beautiful in North America. The wood thrush is an omnivore, and feeds"
"turkey, and ruffed grouse, and animals whose populations have also declined in recent decades, such as the golden-winged warbler, whip-poor-will, willow flycatcher, indigo bunting, and New England cottontail. Leslie Glasgow, the assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish, Wildlife, Parks, and Marine Resources from 1969 to 1970, wrote a dissertation through Texas A&M University on the woodcock, with research based on his observations through the Louisiana State University Agricultural Experiment Station. He was an LSU professor from 1948 to 1980 and an authority on wildlife in the wetlands. American woodcock The American woodcock (""Scolopax minor""), sometimes colloquially referred to as"
"America in late summer and through autumn. Barn spiders are most common in the Northeastern United States and Canada. This spider was made well known in the book ""Charlotte's Web"" by American writer E. B. White, with a particularly interesting point that the spider's full name is Charlotte A. Cavatica, a reference to the barn spider's scientific name, ""Araneus cavaticus"". In addition, one of Charlotte's daughters, after asking what her mother's middle initial was, names herself Aranea. Barn spider Araneus cavaticus, commonly known as the barn spider, is a common orb-weaver spider native to North America. They are around three-quarters"