My choice of words may have been misleading. Maybe "program" gave the indication of a coordinated effort among a group. I'm sure it wasn't . Rereading my original post, I never did mention "formal programs".
Fact is, one by one, all the farms we used to shoot over, individually began eradicating woodchucks through the use of poison.
Where was that ? I was hunting them in the Masonville - Sidney center- Trout Creek - Walton area of Delaware County in the 70's and 80's and there were still lots of chucks. I knew a lot of farmers in the area at the time and they would give permission to about anyone who asked to shoot chucks. There were quite a few people doing so at the time and it was not uncommon for us to run into other folks out chuck hunting.
