Originally Posted by Lonny
Originally Posted by deflave


Plagues and extreme weather is what kills them.


Dave


In my area, I'm thinking it had to be some kind of plague or disease that went through.

Even isolated colonies that rarely got shot were gone over the course of a couple years.

During the time our local squirrels were at a low point we would drive to Eastern OR and their Beldings Ground Squirrels were thick as hell.


I was talking to a guy yesterday who worked for the Air Force at Gowen Field as a helicopter mechanic and he was talking about the Black Plague that has hit the ground squirrels north of the Snake River in SW Idaho.

He mentioned something about the plague that really stood me up...."sounds like it got away from them."