This week’s featured creature, the eastern gray squirrel, is not as commonly seen as The subject of last week’s column, the fox squirrel. And there are good reasons for this. One being that gray ...

As scatterhoarders, Sciurus carolinensis (Eastern Gray Squirrel) usually rely on food they buried during fall to survive cold winter months. However, the range of this species includes areas of the ...

Up and down the hallway, the lights were out in all the classrooms and laboratories, along with the refrigerators, air conditioning units and lab equipment. I guess I’d better go and get it. One of ...

I often enjoy the more common side of nature, the nature in our own backyards or neighborhood park that we see every day – for example, the eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis). It’s likely ...

The Western gray squirrel is the largest tree squirrel in the state. It’s being threatened by wildfires and habitat fragmentation. Courtesy of Jennifer Becar with the Washington Department of Fish and ...

The original squirrel species in Longview is continuing to lose its habitat. The western gray squirrel has been reclassified from threatened to endangered in Washington state after a unanimous vote ...