We had lots of ground hogs until the Spring of 1974. Not sure what happened to them, they just disappeared, and never came back in any great numbers. We went from Blue Cold to really Heavy Rain, and lots of it like flipping a switch. I speculated they might have drowned in the dens. That is only speculation, they might have caught something and died off. In the early 1970's I was hunting them with a 225 Winchester rifle. I would have had a ball with the gear I own today. Now days I could make longer shots with my 22 Nosler M48 Handgun than I did with the old 225 rifle.

Bob R