While eastern gray squirrels can clearly survive and even thrive in urban and suburban landscapes, their natural habitat is mature temperate hardwood or mixed forests. Squirrels evolved to use their ...

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 ...

Urban cemeteries are among the largest and most stable of all greenspace systems. Extensive vegetation in cemeteries ameliorates the urban environment and provides habitat for wildlife. The presence ...

The UF/IFAS Leon County Extension Office and I have been receiving a lot of calls lately about squirrels. This is no surprise, as Tallahassee is a city within a forest, and the most common herbivore ...