Stan Boutin has climbed more than 5,000 spruce trees in the last 30 years. He has often returned to the forest floor knowing if a ball of twigs and moss within the tree contained newborn red squirrel ...
For six to eight months of each year, thirteen-lined ground squirrels don’t leave their small, subterranean dens. Beneath North America’s grasslands, they wait out the cold season hibernating, without ...
Squirrels eat a lot of things — including nestling songbirds and snowshoe hare babies — but the largest part of their diet by far is white spruce seeds. Four red squirrels poke their heads ...