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Show Ma9 Pa and Baby Bush Tail Pose Acute Housing Problem the home, one for papa's bachelor apartment and one for the young to use when they are partially grown. Lumbering operations to provide material for man's housing take only the older trees, leaving the young and cavity-less trees which are most unsuitable for squirrels. Only solution advanced by conservationists con-servationists is that nature groups plant "temporary" housing in areas where the tree-housing situation is most acute. JEFFERSON CITY, MO. Latest victim of the housing shortage is the bushy-tailed squirrel. Growth in squirrel families and heavy lumbering operations in the state's forests have combined to re-i re-i suit in an acute situation for man's bushy-tailed friends, Missouri con-, servationists report. The tree-housing shortage is made even more desperate by the papa squirrel's 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 |
