Re: Where have all the Fox Squirrels gone?
[Re: INOutdoorsman]
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09/10/18 11:23 PM
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It's strange here. At the house we have nothing but gray squirrels. 20 miles south at a place we trap... nothing but fox squirrels.
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Re: Where have all the Fox Squirrels gone?
[Re: INOutdoorsman]
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09/11/18 12:38 AM
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Away from them Canadians!
"...in a very few days we succeeded in taking over one hundred beaver, the skins of which were worth ten dollars per pound." Jim Beckwourth (1856)
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Re: Where have all the Fox Squirrels gone?
[Re: OhioBoy]
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09/11/18 02:06 PM
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SNIPERBBB
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Here in Ohio there are fox squirrels in the woods and gray squirrels in town.
I've seen fox squirrels in town but I've never seen a gray squirrel in the woods. I can show you a ton of greys down here in SE Ohio
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Re: Where have all the Fox Squirrels gone?
[Re: INOutdoorsman]
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09/11/18 04:10 PM
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Michigan Trappin
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I grew up in Battle Creek michigan
This info from Wikipedia is what I was told as a 7 year old boy in the 1970s
Black squirrel near Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan In the United States, the city of Kent, Ohio developed a significant black squirrel population after ten were legally imported from Canada in February 1961 by Larry Woodell, the head groundskeeper at Kent State University. They have driven out native squirrels in many areas, though they peacefully coexist with most other rodent wildlife.[10]
Black squirrels are well established in the Quad Cities area along the Iowa-Illinois boundary. According to one story, recounted in the book The Palmers, they were first introduced on the Rock Island Arsenal Island. Some of them then escaped by jumping across ice floes on the Mississippi River when it was frozen, and thus populated other areas in Rock Island.[11] In Council Bluffs, Iowa, there is a sizeable population of black fox squirrels, where the animal is the town mascot.[12] Black squirrels are also found nearby in Iowa City. Black squirrels occur in increasing abundance in the cities of Omaha and Lincoln, Nebraska, and in the surrounding areas where eastern gray squirrels are not found.[13][14][15]
Black squirrels are abundant in Battle Creek, Michigan, and, according to legend, were first introduced there by Will Keith Kellogg, founder of the Kellogg Company, in an effort to destroy the local population of red squirrels. The story continues that this same population of squirrels was further introduced to the campus of Michigan State University by John Harvey Kellogg for the same purpose.[16] This story was corrected by Wilbur C. "Joe" Johnson, the late chief wildlife biologist at M.S.U.'s Kellogg Biological Station near Battle Creek which includes W.K. Kellogg's former 32-acre estate at Gull Lake. Johnson, who worked at K.B.S. for 48 years, credited Dr. John Harvey Kellogg for introducing the black squirrel to the Kellogg estate during the 1930s. Johnson said he himself trapped 20 black squirrels at Gull Lake during the early 1960s at the specific request of former MSU president John A. Hannah and released them on the East Lansing campus.[17]
Was told also the were brought from over seas, But I don't know, but the "black squirrel" does not seem to be like the others in that it will drive off the little red or pine squirrels Just some info
Every day is a gift from GOD, don't waste it!!
If they have plenty of food, give them something interesting to smell
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Re: Where have all the Fox Squirrels gone?
[Re: INOutdoorsman]
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09/11/18 04:59 PM
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There’s a lot of fox squirrels around here on the mountains that are along the agricultural fields. Last year while bow hunting I saw a pretty good sized one I wouldn’t mind getting mounted.
I don’t trap because I want to I trap because I have to
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