On June 11, 2020, we spoke with The Squirrel Census team about how and why they count squirrels in Atlanta and beyond!

The Squirrel Census is a multimedia science, design, and storytelling project focusing on the Eastern gray (Sciurus carolinensis). They count squirrels and present their findings to the public. In October 2018, they led over 300 volunteers on the first-ever complete census of the squirrels in Central Park, New York, NY. The following year, they released the multimedia Central Park Squirrel Census 2019 Report.

About The Squirrel Census Team

Nathaniel Slaughter is the chief cartographer for the Squirrel Census. His terrestrial map of Central Park is the most comprehensive survey made in the past 70+ years of the popular urban green space. By day, he is a map maker and designer at Apple. A few of his maps are catalogued at the Library of Congress. Jamie Allen is the creator and editor of the Squirrel Census. He wrote for CNN.com during the first “dotcom boom” in the ‘90s, and he has since published work in The Oxford American, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Paris Review’s “The Daily,” The Missouri Review, New South, and other outlets.