While foraging in the secluded woods of the Superior National Forest in northern Minnesota, this Marmota monax ponders, “How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?“

– Woodchuck, Winton, St. Louis County, May 1931.

Another woodchuck, captured in southeastern Minnesota in the vicinity of Frontenac and later released on the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis, simply wonders, “Where is the wood?“


– Woodchuck, young, next to man’s feet, Minneapolis, June 5, 1927.


– Woodchuck, young, small, side view on cement, Minneapolis, June 5, 1927.


– Woodchuck, young, small, side view, Minneapolis, June 5, 1927.


– Woodchuck, young, side, medium, on slab of concrete, Minneapolis, June 5, 1927.


– Woodchuck, young, large, side, Minneapolis, June 5, 1927.


– Woodchuck, young, large, back view, Minneapolis, June 5, 1927.