NEWS & EVENTS: WFCB News

February 2009

Birth control for squirrels: Non-native critter spike a concern for University. Sara Krause is the UC Davis doctoral student leading the project. Her faculty adviser is Douglas Kelt, who is Chair and Professor of Wildlife Ecology in the department of Wildlife, Fish, & Conservation Biology. The project launched in the week of November 3rd, when faculty wildlife experts and their students began placing humane live traps of wire mesh under trees and around lawns to capture eastern fox squirrels (Sciurus niger). These squirrels will be examined, makred with a nontoxic dye, and set free. Through fall and winter, the researchers will tudy the squirrels' behavior to establish a baseline understanding of the animals' normal activities. The fox-squirrel project will be managed by a collaboration of faculty experts, staff and students who are working along with the Grounds Division of Facilities Management, Division Director Sal Genito. See the UCDavis News & Info for more information along with the video clip, click here. You can also read and see more at the NEWS10 website.

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