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["Erdman, Jim" <ErdmanJ@uwstout.edu>]

Hello all,

        This discussion of groundhogs (woodchucks etc) is interesting as we 
have a recurring problem with them.  It isn't so much the crops that they 
eat, as they don't seem to eat enough to notice, but they do tremendous 
damage to building foundations, etc. Our barn foundation is honeycombed with 
their burrows, which lets water into the lower levels of the structure, and 
causes frost damage later in the year.  We have had firewood piles collapse 
because of groundhogs burrowing under them.
        I have found over the past 25 plus years, that if the groundhogs move 
out, then the possums and skunks move in.
        If I found anyone trapping these varmits elswhere and dropping them 
off near us, I would do my best to have them arrested.
         
        Jim Erdman, in Menomonie, WI

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