Seeing Red: Biologist Stares Down Predator in the Backcountry

Squirrels are a passion for Sarah Westrick, a biology researcher at the University of Michigan. Last summer she attended the Kluane Red Squirrel Project in the Shakwak Trench near Kluane National Park and Reserve in Canada’s southwest Yukon Territory. Researchers congregate there each summer to study the North American red squirrel.Westrick was studying the squirrel’s maternal behavior, specifically how the moms prepare their pups for nature’s realities.
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