page_title: Kimberling Creek Cluster
section_title: Biological significance
hierarchical_section_title: Kimberling Creek Cluster / Biological significance
caption_attribution_description: English: Myotis septentrionalis (Northern long-eared myotis) roosting on a ceiling tile. This specimen was found in a church in Concord New Hampshire.
context_page_description: The Kimberling Creek Cluster is a region in the Jefferson National Forest recognized by The Wilderness Society for its diversity of habitats extending along parts of Brushy and Hogback Mountains. Kimberling Creek, with headwaters in the cluster, flows into Big Walker Creek, a tributary of the New River.
context_section_description: The land form, climate, soils and geology of the Appalachian highlands, as well as its evolutionary history, have created one of the most diverse collection of plants and animals in the deciduous forests of the temperate world. The cluster's large tract of land supports species, such as black bear and some bird species, that require extensive tracts of unbroken forest for survival.
  The cluster provides habitat for species that are critically imperiled, imperiled or vulnerable, as indicated by their NatureServe conservation status.  Among these are:
  three mussels, the Tennessee Heelsplitter, the Green Floater and the Tennessee Pigtoe;
  a beetle, the Hoffman’s Cave Beetle;
  a millipede, the Hoffman’s Cleidogonid Millipede;
  two fish, the Tennessee Dace and the Candy Darter;
  three mammals, the Virginia Bigeared Bat, the Northern long-eared Myotis, and the Indiana Bat;
  a cave, the Significant Cave;
  three terrestrial natural communities,  the Appalachian Xeric Pine Outcrop Woodland, the Central Appalachian Xeric Chestnut Oak-Virginia Pine Woodland and the Central Appalachian Montane Oak-Hickory forest (Rich Type); and
  seven vascular plants, Piratebush, Box Huckleberry, Large-leaved grass-of-parnassus, Bog Bluegrass, Tennessee Pondweed, Basil Mountainmint, and Torrey’s Mountainmint.
caption: Northern long-eared Myotis
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