Stan Boutin has climbed more than 5,000 spruce trees in the last 30 years. He has often returned to the forest floor knowing if a ball of twigs and moss within the tree contained newborn red squirrel ...

About a month ago, a hiker at Sand Ridge Nature Center in South Holland spotted a small creature with reddish brown fur scurrying up the trunk of a long-needled pine tree. “At first we thought it ...

Plans for houses at a former fire station will go back before councillors after an independent report found evidence of red ...

It was about five springs ago when a woman who lived near Cass City called me and asked if I knew anyone local who could get rid of nuisance animals. Her husband had passed away and she had decided to ...

Generally, I prefer to handle my own problem wildlife issues around my home, such as dealing with destructive garden-raiding raccoons (which once tried to reside in my attic), and I have usually been ...

I first saw this curious little animal on June 1. It was a beautiful day outside, but the cottonwood tree that grows next to my deck was in full seed-dispersal mode and sitting outside was not really ...

The general reputation of squirrels has declined in my lifetime. When I was a boy in the 1950s, I don't recall negative remarks about squirrels; indeed, most considered them to be "the cutest ...