PHOENIX — Animal lovers now have a new piece of good news to go nuts over: a population of endangered red squirrels unique to Arizona is growing slightly. Wildlife officials found there are 233 Mount ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Mount Graham red squirrel population in Arizona has risen more than expected, according to the Arizona Department of Game and ...

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., last month wrote letters to the Arizona Game and Fish Department and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, asking for increased attention to the squirrels' future. "Only an ...

Mount Graham red squirrels live in a high-altitude part of the Pinaleño Mountains. The oft-litigated red squirrels named after Arizona’s Mount Graham reentered federal court Tuesday as ...

SAFFORD, AZ — The latest survey shows another increase in the population of the endangered Mount Graham red squirrel in the Pinaleno Mountains of southeastern Arizona, according to authorities. State ...

In 2017, a wildfire raged across a drought-sick mountain in Southern Arizona and nearly wiped out a subspecies of red squirrel found nowhere else on the planet. In the aftermath of the Frye Fire — ...

A Mt. Graham red squirrel matriarch. (Photo by Robin Silver) TUCSON, Ariz. (CN) — Federal officials have less than two years to decide whether to expand critical habitat for what some call the most ...

PHOENIX - The Phoenix Zoo is a sanctuary for an endangered subspecies of squirrel from Southern Arizona. Four of the last remaining 214 Mount Graham red squirrels known to exist were brought to the ...