seeing as how this is one of the least used sections and that hunting season is running towards its end. i thought that it would be a good time to start planning towards next season. squirrels are really tough adaptable creatures. after kinda looking into them a little and talking to a few people i had a little info to put out.
from what i found( and correct me if im wrong) squirrels will breed twice a year. around january and again around may or june. and having people tried and succeeded with this technique before.
so if you have a good area for squirrels and just not alot of them try going to a more urban area where you know the squirrels are used to people. and say around late febuary set out some havahart traps. personal experience shows sunflower seeds to be very effective. the young will be nearly grown so you wont hurt the population and the urban squirrels will be more inclined to approach the trap. take the little critter to where you plan to release it and let it go(doing so carefully, as you all know they bite)
if you trapped and released say around 2-3 squirrels a week from febuary to april then you would have plenty to begin breeding again for the summer. and odds are the little critters breed more often than that. and you continued this through maybe july. you would have a tree rat paradise come fall.
any corrections to my half @$$ research would be great.
and i forgot to mention this. but if you actually know someone in the city where you could trap the squirrels then you can say they are pest and go through that whole spill to avoid unneccasary fines and what not
I find if the conditions are right for a species in an area they will be there. If you have woods without squirrels then there is a reason for that. Find the problem and fix otherwise everything you bring in will disappear/die.
alot of areas, especially those cut down in the past may have had them. and the clearing of the forest may have run them off and they just havnt returned in large enough numbers to really be noticed. mainly around old farmland or new subdivisions there may have once been a large population. but from my observations the cutting down of forest runs the squirrels out. so they may need to be reintroduced
but from my observations the cutting down of forest runs the squirrels out. so they may need to be reintroduced
If the cleared areas could physically support a large squirrel population, there'd already be plenty of squirrels there. Introducing squirrels into marginal habitat (no or too few mature nesting, shelter, and food trees) would not benefit the individual or the population. And you may be introducing disease into the area where there was none before. Just some things to consider.
thats a really good point with the disease. i was just saying that if the area had the food and habitat but for some odd reason no/few squirrels. im not telling anyone to do this. its just an option to consider
I find if the conditions are right for a species in an area they will be there. If you have woods without squirrels then there is a reason for that. Find the problem and fix otherwise everything you bring in will disappear/die.
I know where I live it's legal to deer hunt with dogs so from October to December the squirrel population drops dramatically but they always pop back in the spring.
i was just trying to throw ideas out there. the negativity some people express on here is over whelming. if you wanted to make something like this happen, you could do it. of course you would look into your local laws and do your research. thats obvious. or maybe not. maybe talking down to people is more fun.
i was just trying to throw ideas out there. the negativity some people express on here is over whelming. if you wanted to make something like this happen, you could do it. of course you would look into your local laws and do your research. thats obvious. or maybe not. maybe talking down to people is more fun.