I will readily admit that I am a total mammal idiot (especially
common names) if the mammal is smaller than I am. It is the Red Squirrel.
Our four-letter code for it is TAHU which is short for Tamiasciurus
hudsonicus. It is definitely not the introduced squirrel (we have those in
Pullman but not in the woods where I work). Sorry for the confusion. They
all look grey to me!!! :-)
Thank you, Kelly McAllister, for the correction!

At 15:58 4/9/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Deb Beutler wrote:
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>> We deal with logging and its effects on native vertebrates in
>> northeastern Washington. In one of our projects, we used artificial nests
>> filled with Japanese Quail eggs to try to assess the amount of predation on
>> nests in forests of different ages. The native gray squirrels were the most
>> common predators of eggs in our study.
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>In northeastern Washington you must be referring to Red Squirrels??? If
>there are Gray Squirrels in northeastern Washington, I expect they are
>the introduced Eastern Gray Squirrel.
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>Kelly McAllister
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Deb Beutler
Department of Zoology
Washington State Univerisity
Pullman, Whitman Co., WA
dbeutler at wsunix.wsu.edu