On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:11:12 -0700 (PDT), bob haller
wrote:

On Jun 20, 3:59=EF=BF=BDpm, (Jack) wrote:
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:17:16 GMT, "brooklyn1"





wrote:
Jack wrote:
The east side property line is a paradise for woodchucks -- which are
called groundhogs here -- because it is defined by a line of about 50
mulberry and black cherry trees.

You have a woodchuck population only because you have all those mulberry=
and
cherry trees, they play a major part of their food supply. =EF=BF=BDEven=
if you do
away with some woodchucks new ones will arrive so long as those trees ar=
e
there. You cannot have those trees if you don't want those woodchucks. =
=EF=BF=BDThe
only reasonable solution is to make that area a woodchuck sanctuary, pil=
e in
lots of big rocks and build lots brush piles under all those trees... th=
e
woodchucks will be happy, you won't need to mow there, and the woodchuck=
s
will not encroach to where there is no food supply. =EF=BF=BDI have some=
woodchucks
but they stay near the brush piles I made way out in my woods alongside =
some
old rock walls... wood chucks like to burrow under large rocks. =EF=BF=
=BDOf course I
don't have 50 fruit trees there either. =EF=BF=BDYour fruit trees are wh=
at's known
as an attractive nuisance... if you harvested all that fruit most of the
woodchucks would leave. =EF=BF=BDMost mulberry trees produce fruit all s=
ummer, how
can you in good conscience complain about woodchucks when it's you who a=
re
feeding them.

Well, these mulberries, black and white, =EF=BF=BDripen in June and attra=
ct
all kinds of creatures, even the carnivorous fox, but by July the
fruit on the ground doesn't seem to be in great demand. =EF=BF=BDThey
certainly do not produce fruit all summer. Cherries are later and are
ubiquituous like weeds, all over the property, not just the east
property line.

I'm not inclined to pile rocks or harvest the fruit but will continue
as in the past to rely on the shotgun as well as a suggestion from one
of the posters he soaking fruit in anti-freeze. =EF=BF=BD

That seems to be an excellent strategy.- Hide quoted text -

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so how many birds and other animals will die a horrible painful death
with your anti freeze fruit?

None.

The fruit goes into the hole.

geez just live and let live, groundhogs are at most a nuisance.

Easy for you to say, PETA pussy.