The Great Squirrel Migration of 1968
In the fall of 1968 , hoi polloi in the easterly United States experienced a military force of nature unlike anything they ’d come across before : grey squirrel , en masse shot , move by the thousands out of the woods , span peck , rivers , and highways . Newspapers publish accounts of squirrels swimming across — and often drowning in — bodies of water . In some localisation , conservation officers report picking up road killing at a charge per unit of one squirrel per mile ....