Oak trees have nut production cycles. One such year was in about 1962 or 1964. Our oak trees had so many acorns that they were lying in a solid layer in my mother's garden, and all over the oak woods in back of our property. The squirrels had a population boom because of the plenty. I mean, the following year squirrels were all over the place, My Dad had numerous dwarf fruit trees, but the overpopulated squirrels were consistently beating us to the fruit. So my dad decided that if they were going to eat his fruit, that we would eat THEM. So he bought traps. And my mother saved a lot on her meat bill over the next few years. I can tell you that fried squirrel tastes a whole lot like dark meat chicken. It's very tasty. Sometimes humans need to be part of the equation i balancing population issues. This was one of those times.
