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Title: EVER HEARD OF THE ALBINO SQUIRREL?
Post by: AntiFltLndrs on Feb 24, 05, 06:19:11 PM: I was talking to a fellow resident today, who happened to mentioned that Wrightwood used to have albino squirrels. A plague hit in the early 70's and wiped out the squirrel population. Apparently, the squirrel population has never been the same.

Any pictures of this? Any info? VERY INTERESTING!
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Post by: KWBoy on Feb 24, 05, 06:23:05 PM: http://orgs.unt.edu/asps/index1.htm
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Post by: AntiFltLndrs on Feb 24, 05, 06:46:09 PM: Thanks KWboy. Is there any info out there on WW history of Albino Squirrels? Any local stories?
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Post by: AntiFltLndrs on Feb 24, 05, 06:56:24 PM: http://www.wrightwoodcalif.com/forum/index.php?action=printpage;topic=495.0

check it out: Of course, if you look hard enough you'll almost always find it on the forum
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Post by: RobertW on Feb 25, 05, 07:30:12 AM
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Post by: AntiFltLndrs on Feb 25, 05, 03:39:07 PM: WOW! Thanks for the story :2thumbsup: So there was only 2 known albino squirrels?. How devastating was the plague?
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Post by: WWMtnGal on Feb 25, 05, 03:48:28 PM: Wow, the picture of the albino squirrel is really cute, I have never seen a photo of one but heard the story years ago.
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Post by: gypsywolf on Feb 26, 05, 03:28:18 AM: Am I imagining things, or isn't there a picture of one in the Wrightwood museum??

I could be getting the little museums I visit confused....
Title: Re: EVER HEARD OF THE ALBINO SQUIRREL?
Post by: Wrightwood on Feb 26, 05, 04:17:34 AM: Quote from: gypsywolf on Feb 26, 05, 03:28:18 AM
Am I imagining things, or isn't there a picture of one in the Wrightwood museum??

I could be getting the little museums I visit confused....

Yes
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Post by: RobertW on Mar 03, 05, 12:23:39 AM
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Post by: ForestGal on Mar 03, 05, 01:38:15 AM
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Post by: Goldie on Mar 03, 05, 01:49:54 AM
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Post by: Local on Mar 03, 05, 09:12:13 AM: I have a picture of a white squirrel that does not have any pink like an albino. I will have to look for the story and picture that were in the mountainer progress, I am pretty sure i have the artical i just need to find it.

LOcal
Title: Re: EVER HEARD OF THE ALBINO SQUIRREL?
Post by: AntiFltLndrs on Mar 03, 05, 04:39:33 PM: Quote from: Local on Mar 03, 05, 09:12:13 AM
I have a picture of a white squirrel that does not have any pink like an albino. I will have to look for the story and picture that were in the mountainer progress, I am pretty sure i have the artical i just need to find it.

LOcal

That would be great! Thanks.
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Post by: Rickster on Oct 12, 05, 04:34:48 PM: Can some tell me how to post a picture . I have one to share.
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Post by: Goldie on Oct 12, 05, 07:13:50 PM: Here's a link to help in posting pictures.

http://www.wrightwoodcalif.com/forum/index.php/topic,1897.0.html
Title: Re: EVER HEARD OF THE ALBINO SQUIRREL?
Post by: Wrightwood on Jan 08, 15, 07:35:27 PM: Is this news article seems the same squirrel?

(http://www.wrightwoodcalif.com/history/NewsArticles/Sep_3__1960_Whitey_Will_Be_Missed_B.jpg)

(http://www.wrightwoodcalif.com/history/NewsArticles/Sep_3__1960_Whitey_Will_Be_Missed.jpg)

(http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr347/RobertWMorgan/Old%20Wrightwood/1963AlbinoSquirrel1.jpg)
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Post by: Jeremy on Jan 08, 15, 07:54:55 PM: ;D
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Post by: Nolena on Jan 09, 15, 12:39:15 AM: Did the plague eradication project many years ago have anything to do with the decimation of the squirrel population?
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Post by: Wrightwood on Jan 10, 15, 07:39:02 AM: (http://www.wrightwoodcalif.com/history/NewsArticles/Aug_2__1956_White_Squirrel__Companion_of_Snow_Shrine_B.jpg)

(http://www.wrightwoodcalif.com/history/NewsArticles/Aug_2__1956_White_Squirrel__Companion_of_Snow_Shrine.jpg)
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Post by: Wrightwood on Jan 10, 15, 07:40:03 AM: (http://www.wrightwoodcalif.com/history/NewsArticles/Aug_27__1958_White_Squirrel_Beginning_To_Trust_Towns_Citizens_b.jpg)

(http://www.wrightwoodcalif.com/history/NewsArticles/Aug_27__1958_White_Squirrel_Beginning_To_Trust_Towns_Citizens.jpg)
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Post by: Wrightwood on Jan 10, 15, 07:41:44 AM: (http://www.wrightwoodcalif.com/history/NewsArticles/Sep_21__1977_Plan_to_move_squirrels_to_Wrightwood_b.jpg)

(http://www.wrightwoodcalif.com/history/NewsArticles/Sep_21__1977_Plan_to_move_squirrels_to_Wrightwood.jpg)
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Post by: RobertW on May 26, 15, 07:05:49 PM: From the Wrightwood Mountain News, October 1958 edition:

(http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr347/RobertWMorgan/Old%20Wrightwood/WWAlbinoSquirrel.jpg)
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Post by: Tall Trees on May 27, 15, 04:41:40 AM: I saw an old picture of the Squirrel today at the Wrightwood Market, It was next to the old picture of John Wayne and friends playing in the snow.
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Post by: RobertW on May 27, 15, 02:51:03 PM: We are only a half a block away from "Our Lady of the Snows", in Robin Circle. I thought that this was the squirrel I remember seeing in the mid 60's. Obviously not, as an article above says that "Whitey" was shot and killed in 1960. The picture below was taken in 1965, 1966 on our property near the front porch. We fed him peanuts. I remember hearing that it too was shot and killed in the mid to late 60s.

(http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr347/RobertWMorgan/Old%20Wrightwood/1963AlbinoSquirrel1.jpg)
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Post by: stnman4 on Nov 20, 18, 06:44:10 AM: there was one that hung around at the top of ceder st in the late 70's i would see it and just stop my dad's truck and watch it, i thought it was the coolest thing. i all so never told anyone. dint want to see anything bad happen to it.