Man I feel sorry for you guys where squirrel season doesn't open til Sept or Oct. We get from the Sat before Memorial Say til Feb 16th. It doesn't hurt the population any
If you have a garden and they get to it. They can be hard on tomatoes and sweet corn. That's when fair chase goes out the window.

I don't have a problem with squirrels in my gardens, but rabbits and woodchucks are another story. I generally leave the critters around my house alone, but when they start eating my vegetables, I start eating them with my vegetables.  :D  

We don't have squirrels around here like we used to before a lot of the farms went under.

There were four working dairy farms within a mile of my house not too many years ago, and they planted a lot of corn. Seems like there were two squirrels in every tree back then.

Bob