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phorbin · 30-04-2008, 02:20 PM posted to rec.gardens.edible

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phorbin said:

In article 20080429-105054.703.0@Pat-
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The adults aren't usually frequent or long-range dispersers. (Probably
because they build elaborate permanent burrows.) It's the young ones
that will do the wandering and (based on my experience) only once a
year. So if you can manage to take out the local residents, you might
expect in the future some occasional new ones, in early summer.
One nice thing about that: Young ones are easier to trap, plus their new
burrows are usually simple and easy to smoke bomb (or whatever).

The adults dig way-station bolt-holes to extend their range. The holes
I've dealt with are usually 5 to 6 feet deep and just a hole.

Yeah, but they're still not like racoons, where there seems to be a never-
ending supply...groundhogs just don't shift around with quite the same
ease and confidence.

I wasn't disagreeing, even if it looks like it. They stick around if you
let them. We had one in the neighbourhood that had a range of two blocks
and bolt holes in every untended spot.

It may still be around, but it doesn't come here any more, since the day
I nearly brained it.

Then too, simple bolt-holes offer easy opportunities that the main dens
don't...

I've chased a number of them to ground.