Range
The CMS is restricted to a small portion of the high Allegheny Mountains in eastern West Virginia. Initially, its range was thought to be limited to Cheat Mountain at elevations above 3,500 feet (1,100 m) in Randolph and in Pocahontas County, where it was also found at Thorny Flat (Cheat's highest point). Later inventories conducted in the 1970s and ‘80s expanded the range to include Pendleton and Tucker counties (e.g., Backbone Mountain, Dolly Sods). More recently, the range has been shown to include the eastern edge of Grant County where they are found as low as 2,640 feet (800 m) elevation. Most populations are found above 3,500 feet (1,100 m). The entire CMS range encompasses only about 935 square miles (2,420 km2), but not continuously throughout even this area (about 60 isolated populations are known). Much of this range is within Monongahela National Forest.
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