A backyard battle against squirrels
Saturday, June 18, 2011 - 23:30
in Mathematics & Economics
Retiree Beverlee Nelson wants to tend her garden and make apricot jam. But squirrels keep ruining the fruit, and nothing she's done to stop them has worked.In 1904, when soldiers from the Civil and Spanish-American wars settled into the Veterans Home in West Los Angeles, they brought Eastern fox squirrels with them as pets (or possibly as future dinners) from Kentucky and Tennessee.