With a population of about 20,000 and growing, the Delmarva fox squirrel is no longer threatened with extinction, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The squirrel, which was on the ...

If all goes according to plan, the Delmarva fox squirrel will soon be taken off the list, as well. To the people who worked so hard to make it possible, this comeback is as special as the bald ...

The Delmarva fox squirrel, a species once so rare that a tiny population hung on in just 10 percent of its native range, has rebounded in Maryland, Virginia and Delaware and now numbers ...

One of the region’s iconic and once-rare animals, the Delmarva fox squirrel, is being considered for delisting as a federal endangered species. That’s because the population has grown and ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity today formally petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to designate and protect “critical habitat” for the endangered Delmarva Peninsula fox ...

A third subspecies, the Delmarva Fox Squirrel, Sciurus niger cinereus, once existed in southeastern Pennsylvania, but nearly went extinct. It has recovered, but only on the Delmarva Peninsula ...

DESCRIPTION: The Delmarva Peninsula fox squirrel is a large, heavy-bodied tree squirrel with an unusually full, fluffy tail. The fox squirrel is frosty silver to slate gray with a white belly and can ...

The First State is adding to its population of a squirrel considered endangered until a few years ago. The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control said four Delmarva fox ...

Big Squirrel with a Small Range Is Recovering The Delmarva fox squirrel – a large squirrel that was one of the 67 originally listed under the federal Endangered Species Act when it became law in ...

Although this charismatic squirrel was once a federally listed endangered species, translocations, habitat management and land protection have helped regional Delmarva fox squirrel populations to ...

The furry gray prisoner, released after being weighed and checked, offered yet another sign that the Delmarva Peninsula fox squirrel, once vanishingly rare, has come back. This supersized ...

was growing up, he hunted and ate Delmarva fox squirrels in the low-lying forests of the Eastern Shore, long before it was clear the giant cousins of the common gray squirrel were in danger of ...