Red-backed Voles Climb into Scientific Literature
![A northern red-backed vole climbing down a tree. UAF photo by Todd Paris. Red-backed Voles Climb into Scientific Literature](https://alaska-native-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/image31-07-2015-07.17.55.jpg)
A few years ago, Link Olson wanted students in his mammalogy class to see one of the neatest little creatures in Alaska, the northern flying squirrel. He baited a few live traps with peanut butter rolled in oats and placed them in spruce trees. When he returned the next day, he found no flying squirrels. […]