[CH] Woodchucks
Byron (byronbromley@tellink.net)
Sat, 01 May 2004 09:50:37 -0400
For our famous woodchuck fighter
from Mother Earth News
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_WHAT DO WOODCHUCKS CHUCK? _ Rangers at California's Sequoia National
Park are doing battle with marmots over the chubby mammals' fondness for
gnawing on the rubber hoses, fan belts, and electrical wiring in the
engines of visitors' cars. Since nabbing a female 'chuck snacking on the
components of one of the park's fire trucks (she was relocated in the
High Sierras), rangers have begun trucking the critters farther into the
wilds after catching them in traps baited with (what else?) old radiator
hoses.
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L.B.