Show ma pa and baby bush tail pose acute housing problem ein JEFFERSON CITY MO latest victim of the housing shortage is the bushy tailed squirrel growth in squirrel families and heavy lumbering operations in the states forests have combined to result in an acute situation tor for mans bushy tailed tri friends ends missouri conservationists report the tree housing shortage is made even more desperate by the papa squirrels insistence on continuing one of his age old customs it seems that when the female gives birth to young the father is ousted from the tree to pace the ground and is allowed to return only when the youngsters have found homes of their own that means that every couple really needs three trees one for the home one tor for papas bachelor apartment and one for the young to use when they are partially grown lumbering operations to provide material for mans housing take only the older trees leaving the young and cavity less trees which are most unsuitable for squirrels only solution advanced by conservationists is that nature groups plant temporary housing in areas where the tree housing situation is most acute |