Title: California ground squirrels : a bulletin dealing with life histories, habits and control of the ground squirrels of California / (by J. Grinnell, J, Dixon and others)
Identifier: californiaground00cali (find matches)
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: California. State Commission of Horticulture; Dixon, Joseph
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Publisher: (Sacramento) : California State Printing Off.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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776 THE MONTHLY BULLETIN. the past individual effort at cleaning up in the different counties had met with only partial response or absolute failure. To accomplish the object of the drive with the least possible delay, the press of California was requested to co-operate, and to them is due in a large measure the success of the project. They gave liberally of space to advise the rancher of the voluntary drive, to advise of control methods and of the law under which the county horticultural commissioners are empowered to act. The State Commissioner of Horticulture and the Rodent Control Division are indebted to the press for its assistance. A series of colored posters urging the ranchers, both from a financial and a patriotic standpoint, to kill the squirrels were issued and
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Fig. 63. Habitat group, Sierra Golden Mantled Ground Squirrel (Callospermophilus chrysodeirus chrysodeirus). distributed by the division to county horticultural commissioners. These were posted by the county inspectors and others interested in the drive. As a further means of assuring success to the campaign, the school children were asked to co-operate, rewards of cash prizes being offered by the State Commissioner of Horticulture personally, and by various county chambers of commerce, supervisors and other organizations. Squirrel week, April 29 to May 4, was planned and a proclamation issued by Governor Wm. D. Stephens, calling upon everyone to do his utmost to destroy this pest, "Squirrel Week" had the moral and financial backing of more than thirty organizations, including the State Council of Defense, the county councils of defense, the United States Public Health Service, the Biological Survey, United States Forest Service, the University of California, through the farm advisers and farm bureaus, the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, the Insecticide and Fungicide Laboratory of the University, the railroad companies of Cali- 184

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