Nature Notes From Crater Lake
Volume 3, No. 1, July 1930
Bobby Has Moved
By Earl U. Homuth
Bobby no longer inhabits the rock and
wood pile near the lodge. He has taken up quarters near the Information
Bureau on the Rim.
Bobby may be less conspicuous than
Jemima or some of the Park bears, but certainly not less popular. The
soft patter of his feet, scurrying across the floor of the Information
Bureau may be the first announcement of his presence. A choice of
raisins or crackers is immediately forthcoming from the ranger on duty.
His trusting nature, diminutive form,
and the peculiar characteristic of a short bobbed tail by which he can
be distinguished from others of the numerous golden mantled ground
squirrels, endears him to visitors and rangers alike. Others of his kind
may be just ground squirrels, but Bobby is a friend and pet of all.
He is certainly keeping Mrs. Bobby, and
the family well supplied in a nest somewhere nearby.