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I was talking about him relocating skunks in Canada, but you made me curious about California ground squirrel laws and found this. What Ian was doing WAS absolutely illegal. You can kill ground squirrels damaging your property using approved methods, but you cannot relocate them, probably because it's a very inhumane death.It's absolutely illegal in California where he did it. If they were invasive fox squirrels he would be allowed to trap and kill them (not relocate) without a permit, but apparently they were natives. I bet the laws are the same in Washington and Canada.
Maybe that's why in a later episode he said he was changing the plan to releasing them at the far end of his property without much explanation.