Wildlife
Western gray squirrel
Sciurus griseus
Habitat
below Celilo Falls
Conservation
Apparently secure
A denizen of mixed hardwood forests, this squirrel is most threatened by humans due to habitat loss and vehicle impacts.
Journal References
15 journal entries mention Western gray squirrel
Sep
11
1803
Seaman Catches Squirrels Swimming Across the Ohio
...down the Ohio River, they encountered large numbers of gray squirrels swimming across the river—a mass migration phenomenon well documented in the early American ...
Aug
2
1805
Lewis: August 2, 1805
...e course of the
day they passed some villages of burrowing squirrels, saw a number of
beaver dams and the inhabitants of them, many young ducks both of the
Duckanmal...
Aug
23
1805
Lewis: August 23, 1805
...is difficult part
of the river larger than a pheasant or a squirrel and they not abundant;
add to this that our stock of provision is now so low that it would not
su...
Sep
18
1805
Lewis: September 18, 1805
...arth
exept ourselves and a few small pheasants, small grey Squirrels, and a
blue bird of the vulter kind about the size of a turtle dove or jay bird.
our rout lay al...
Oct
26
1805
Clark: October 26, 1805
...ent
dancedour hunters killed five Deer, 4 verry large gray Squirrels, a
goose & Pheasent, one man giged a Salmon trout which we had fried in a
little Bears oil which...
Dec
1
1805
Lewis: December 1, 1805
...y had seen the track of one
deer only and a few small grey squirrels. these suirrels are about the
size of the red squirrel of the lakes and eastern Atlantic States, ...
Jan
15
1806
Lewis: January 15, 1806
...r Cat and those also of a small animal about the size of a
squirrel not known to me; these skins I procured from the Indians who had
previously dressed them and forme...
Feb
15
1806
Clark: February 15, 1806
...er, minks, Seals
racoons, large Grey Squerrel, Small brown Squirrel, Small grey Squirrel,
Ground Squirrel, Sewelel, Braro, rat, mouse, mole, hare, rabbet, and pole
C...
Feb
15
1806
Lewis: February 15, 1806
...on otter, sea Otter, mink, spuck, seal, racoon, large grey
squirrel, small brown squirrel, small grey squirrel, ground squirrel,
sewelel, Braro, rat, mouse, mole, Pan...
Feb
21
1806
Lewis: February 21, 1806
...eat agility, and
bound from tree to tree in pursuit of the squirrel or Rackoon their
natural and most usual food. their colour is a jut black except a small
spot of ...
Feb
25
1806
Lewis: February 25, 1806
...uch, and but seldom prepare them for
robes. The large grey squirrel appears to be a native of a narrow tract of
country on the upper side of the mountains just below ...
Feb
26
1806
Lewis: February 26, 1806
...ort and flat. that he saw one of them run up
a tree like a squirrel and that it returned and ran into a hole in the
ground. the ears are short thin pointed and covere...
Apr
16
1806
Lewis: April 16, 1806
... had never before seen. they are a size less than the grey
squirrel common to the middle atlantic states and of a pided grey and
yellowish brown colour, in form it re...
Apr
20
1806
Lewis: April 20, 1806
...ve. their children frequently wear robes of the
large grey squirrel skins, those of the men and women are principally deer
skins, some wolf, elk, bighorn and buffaloe...
May
14
1806
Lewis: May 14, 1806
... killed. Shannon also returned with a few pheasants and two squirrells. we
have found our stone horses so troublesome that we indeavoured to exchange
them with the Ch...