B-9 



Black bear Ursus americanus 



Raccoon Procyon lotor 



Mink Mustela vison 



River otter Lutra canadensis 



White tailed deer Odocoileus virginianus 



Critical environmental factors in this community include 

 frequency and severity of fire, duration of flooding and amount of 

 peat or elevation. 



Cypress-Gum Swamp Forest 



The cypress-gum swamp forest is probably the most 

 characteristic community of the South. It reaches its northern 

 distribution in the Chesapeake Bay region occurring in several 

 isolated areas such as Battle Creek Cypress swamp. In deeper 

 swamps where the land is flooded almost continuously, baldcypress 

 Taxodium distichum and/or water tupelo Nyssa aquatica will exist 

 without associates, although water tupelo is mush less tolerant 

 of flooding than is baldcypress (Penfound, 1952). This community 

 represents some of the wildest country remaining in the Atlantic 

 Coastal Plain. Several of the larger predators persist in these 

 swamps . 



Typical animals include: 



Pine woods tree frog Hyla femoralis 



Green tree frog Hyla cinerea 



Bull frog Rana catesbeiana 



Snapping turtle Chelydra serpentina 



Eastern mud turtle Kinosternon sub rub rum 



Stinkpot Sternothaerus odoratus 



Spotted turtle Clemmys guttata 



Painted turtle Chrysemys picta 



Water snake Natrix sipedon 



Eastern hognose snake Heterodon platyrhinos 



Double crested cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus 



Common egret Casmerodius albus 



Black crowned night heron Nycticorax nycticorax 



Wood duck Aix sponsa 



Red shouldered hawk Buteo lineatus 



Woodcock Philohela minor 



Barred owl Strix varia 



Pileated woodpecker Hylatomus pileatus 



Acadian flycatcher Empidonax virescens 



Prothonotary warbler Protonotaria citrea 



Cardinal Richmondena cardinalis 



Opossum Didelphis marsupialis 



