Bringing Franklin's ground squirrels back

Justin Moore is leading a study of a reintroduction project of Franklin’s ground squirrels—state endangered in Indiana and state threatened in Illinois—at Kankakee Sands in collaboration with Purdue University Fort Wayne, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, and The Nature Conservancy.

He started with work on piping plovers and other endangered species. Then Purdue Fort Wayne assistant professor of biology Scott Bergeson and Indiana DNR mammalogist Brad Westrich came up with idea to collaborate with a grad student on Indiana’s endangered squirrel. Moore had a project.

Read the story in the Chicago Sun Times.