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Show Even Squirrels Rebel ot Eviction Proceedings ! WAUKESHA. WIS. - Indicating that the current housing shortage 1 has extended even to the animal , population, squirrel residents of a 40-acre woods near here attempted to prevent eviction from their hollow hol-low tree homes by tearing down their eviction notices. At the same lime they proved that they are better bet-ter Judges of limber than foresters Trees In the area were marked for cutting last summer by Cal Stott. United States forest service employe. On each unsound tree-unmarketable tree-unmarketable and full of hollows that sqjirrels like to convert into apartments - Stott had stapled a white tag. Trees so tagged were to be cut down and weeded out. On each tree thnt was ready for market, Stott stapled a red tag When he returned to the woods recently to measuie log lengths, I Stott discovered that squirrels hud removed all of the white tags from their doorsteps. The squirrels also demonstrated that they are smarter than foresters when It comes to Judging trees. One red tag also was missing, so Stott decided to check more thoroughly thor-oughly although the tree had seemed to be sound enough when it was originally Inspected. The squirt els were right the tree was full of holes |