BANGOR DAILY NEWS • July 23, 2020
Small, furry and cute, the Eastern chipmunk is a common woodland critter in the state and it may well be coming to a vegetable patch near you. Gardeners in Maine are trying anything they can think of to keep the rodents from eating ripening crops in the wake of an explosion in the chipmunk population. This summer’s chipmunk boom is reminiscent of the boom in the Maine gray squirrel population the previous two summers, Dill said, which was followed by a natural decrease in the population this year.