White House, Washington, D.C. (map), 1995 Photograph by Chris Johns
“Making a getaway, an unauthorized visitor to the White House lawn dashes off with a peanut. Groundskeepers erected squirrel feeders to entice the rodents away from flower bulbs, a solution that sometimes works for gardeners, who concede: If you can’t beat ’em, feed ’em.”
—From “In Praise of Squirrels,” November 1995, National Geographic magazine