Moreover, highly effective storms blow baby squirrels out of their parents' tree-based nests. Hurricane Irene saddled wildlife rehabilitation teams with tons
Importance of wildlife of orphaned newborn squirrels who'd been evicted from their nests and would've most certainly perished if left to fend for themselves. And talking of timber, when Hurricane Hugo leveled South Carolina forests in 1989, the pure disaster virtually wiped out the world's largest population of endangered purple cockaded woodpeckers, a species dependent on residing pines.
