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An interesting article about squirrels. Randi Smith, who commented below in response to this article, is not subscribed to the pestlist, but she would appreciate any suggestions. Mariko On 7/25/12 12:00 PM, "randi_sm...@fws.gov" <randi_sm...@fws.gov> wrote: Today we found something else to add to our disaster plan, squirrel related. If your middle school volunteers are helping trap and relocate squirrels because the squirrels are eating one building and using the historic boat as a storage locker, and they have the trap any where near the air intakes for your storage building/office, and they happen to get a skunk, you should shut down the air handlers before animal control tries to haul the skunk away. If you don't do that, you should shut them down as soon as possible after the skunk sprays, and open doors to get the skunk smell out of the building. Life is never dull here. Randi Sue Smith Museum Curator & Archivist US Fish & Wildlife Service DC Booth Historic National Fish Hatchery and Archives 423 Hatchery Circle Spearfish, SD 57783 605-642-7730 ext. 215 www.fws.gov/dcbooth/ randi_sm...@fws.gov Resources cannot be managed well in the future without complete records of how they were managed in the past. ************************************ Squirrels cause nearly $10,000 in damage at L.Q.C. Lamar House Museum http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20120724/NEWS/120724024/Squirrels-want-call-L-Q-C-Lamar-House-Museum-home?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Home July 25, 2012 OXFORD — Squirrels' attempts to get back inside the L.Q.C. Lamar House Museum have resulted in nearly $10,000 in damage. A $1.5 million restoration of the home of the famous Mississippi statesman, L.Q.C. Lamar, was completed in 2008. It also drove out the squirrels that had made the house their home. Hollis Green, director of the Oxford Conference Center, tells the Oxford Eagle that an inspection by Grantham Construction show the cost to repair the damage was $9,500. "We didn't expect the damage to be that extensive," he said. City policy states no bid process is necessary for projects costing between $5,000 and $50,000. However, Green is required to obtain more than one quote. "We are setting that up now," said Billy Lamb, the city's superintendent of buildings and grounds. Included in the cost to repair the problem are plans to keep the damage from continuing, Hollis said. "The contractor assured me there's ways they can fix it so the squirrels can't re-enter," Hollis said. "If that doesn't work, we may have to look at more severe methods, some other type of eradication method." It comes down to a turf war, Hollis and Lamb said. The L.Q.C. Lamar House sat empty for many years before restoration efforts began several years ago. Some of the trees around the property have been there for more than 175 years. "It was a good place for them," Lamb said. "They just want to get into the attic. Even now, no one is living in it and it's still vacant a good part of the time. There's no threat to them there. Just like anyone else, they just want to get back into their habitat." L.Q.C. Lamar was a U.S. Supreme Court justice and Secretary of the Interior after representing Mississippi in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. He died in 1893. He wrote Mississippi's ordinance of secession in 1860. He was included in John F. Kennedy's "Profiles in Courage" for his role in reunifying the nation after the Civil War. -- ******************************** Mariko Kageyama Collections Manager, Vertebrate Zoology University of Colorado Museum of Natural History Boulder, CO 80309-0265 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To send an email to the list, send your msg to pestlist@museumpests.Net To unsubscribe from this list send an email to pestlist@museumpests.net and in the subject put: "unsubscribe" - no quotes please. You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. To change to the DIGEST mode send an email to imail...@museumpests.net with this command in the body: set mode digest pestlist Any problems email l...@collectionpests.com or l...@zaks.com
