Thus, some degree of permanency comes with the designation. Wilderness areas in West Virginia . Currently we are blessed with six protected wlderness areas. Elevations range from 2,400 feet to 4,600 feet. The area contains the entire drainage of the Middle Fork of the Williams River and the North Fork of the Cranberry River.
Hardwoods dominate as do black bears.
An unusual area where the red spruce forest burned and is now known for its extensive rocky plains, upland bogs, and sweeping vistas. Hardwoods and laurel thickets are at lower elevations. At higher elevations one encounters groves of wind-stunted red spruce, heath barrens where azaleas, mountain laurels, rhododendron, and blueberries grow. The area lies in a natural bowl between Shavers Mountain and McGowan Mountain. It is covered with second-growth forest, dense thickets of rhododendron and mountain laurel along the streams, and a variety of mosses elsewhere.