Squirrel wars

It's rare that a major newspaper devotes many column inches to squirrels. But the New York Times did last weekend. In a lengthy piece in its Sunday magazine, the Times featured the gray squirrel problem in Britain. American gray squirrels, the very species that resides just outside our front door right here in Uptown, were introduced to England many years ago. The squirrels have begun to overrun the native (and beloved) red squirrels of the British Isles.