On Oct. 20, I found myself near Wooster, in Wayne County, attempting to photograph waterfowl. As we slunk along a wooded wetland border, I noticed movement in a nearby tree. A black squirrel! I was ...

"There's no animal as fast as the mountain boomer, the little red squirrel. 'He's so fast,' said Lindsey Rogers, a mountain man who grew up at a time when the woods were full of boomers, 'he can cut a ...

Eastern gray squirrels may appear to be routine backyard wildlife, yet in Kentucky, they hold formal recognition alongside ...

Squirrel conflicts persist not because the animals are unusually destructive, but because human environments concentrate food ...

The Northland is home to several large maple trees. Growing big with very colorful leaves, they dominate the forest in fall. It is hard not to notice their dynamic blended colors at that time. But in ...

DRIVING HOME from work one recent late afternoon on my country road commute, a small dark critter made the mad dash across the road a few dozen yards ahead of my truck. It was well on the other side ...

Spicy Jane is a real nut. The baby squirrel races around her enclosure, jumping on her adoptive squirrel brother Cyrus, who is a wee bit older. If you open her enclosure, she will jump on you. The ...

Both January and February were colder than normal. January’s 4.7 degrees was 6.5 below the normal of 11.2 degrees. This impressive deviation was less than what we experienced in the following month.

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission held their fifth annual Umarex Big Squirrel Challenge over the weekend, a statewide ...

Note: This column originally was published Nov. 19, 2010. "There's no animal as fast as the mountain boomer, the little red squirrel. 'He's so fast,' said Lindsey Rogers, a mountain man who grew up at ...