[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.