I've wondered that myself, I know they eat good stuff, clover, dandelion, other young greens etc.
There is some oddball tree that used to be in a fence line along my old garden, that I let just grow, can't figure out what it is but it sure grew in beautiful, nice round canopy, and is the last to get leaves on it, looks dead for awhile, then it catches up. I saw a woodchuck go up into that tree last Sun., so I went down and paid a visit to him, he froze, I kind of tickled him with a small stick, seemed to calm down a bit last one I did that with, was up in a tree, ( photo below ) he became a great little pal, I used to feed him and he would hang out morning or afternoon, no one would believe it so I took photos. I took several photos on my cell phone of the one in the tree, he was eating the leaves, had one in his mouth when I took the photos.
You would think that being herbivores or grazing, can't be nothing like a rat, though I've never done it, in a survival situation, I would without hesitation.
I used to blame them for any damage in the garden, then I observed them to see what in heck they really eat, everything but the vegetable plants, if there were weeds, I mulch with hay now, and fence it off. They will eat flowers and similar plants, and if they will wait for a ripe tomato, won't take it green usually. Not much of a nuisance around here, I've let them be, and boy has the population been steady. The network of holes seems to stay the same, before I mow, I mark em out and flatten the dirt, get rid of the rocks. I used to shoot them, til this guy softened me up, though if those holes were a problem would have to go back to that, interesting and sometimes a nuisance creature, you know they have a separate compartment in there den system for a bathroom, they don't go on the surface, seemingly clean/neat creatures, this guy tried to take a broom down into the hole once, had to fight with him to get it back, he sure was different and was a lot of fun the years he was around.
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