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Article: The Truth about WOODCHUCKS.
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- Animals
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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IT is said that for every creature on this Earth there is a purpose," began the lead article of the newsletter of the New England Pumpkin Growers Association. But editor Hugh Wiberg clearly doesn't believe it. "Someday, maybe," he writes, "someone will explain to me the `purpose' of woodchucks."
To Wiberg, the woodchuck, like the despised squash beetle, is simply one more obstacle standing between him and the 1,000-pound record-breaking pumpkin of his dreams. Similar dark thoughts plague gardeners of more ordinary ambitions as ripening vegetables disappear and woodchucks, just coincidentally, grow rounder and rounder.
But the woodchuck is on his own ...