Woodchucks or Groundhogs are as much a part of the fields and roadsides of eastern North America as the grass itself. One sees them everywhere, their large, bulky bodies standing upright at the mouths of their burrows as they chew intently with short-sighted, absent gaze. In their summer season above ground woodchucks have many enemies and at first intimation of danger they dash for the saftey of their bolt-holes. A Woodchuck that has strayed too far in search of tender greens and whose retreat is blocked by a fox or other preditor has little chance of escape. The long eastern winters are a problem that the Woodchuck solves by hibernation. All through the season of cold it stays safely asleep until aroused by the warmth of spring.