Anyone ever seen a woodchuck climb trees? I've seen it twice while out scouting over the years. Both were before smart phones so I wasn't able to take a picture. One was in a small pecan and the other in a locust tree.

I saw one at least 20" up a pine years ago.  I asked my parents and they said theyve seen it some too.

Apparently grey foxes can climb some as well.

Well I didn't think I was crazy...

First time I saw one I thought it was a tree rat on steroids,but then I saw it was lacking the tail! I don't know why one would want to climb a tree though.
Denny

You bet.  My little mongrel dog used to tree them often when I was a teenager. I climbed a tree once and got just below the groundhog. He came down and stopped right at my forearm. I thought, uh-oh, I'm going to get bit! We were eye to eye at less than a foot.

That one was about 15'. I've seen them unpressured in trees about 10' or so.

He didn't bite. He went on down he tree.  I voluntarily deducted 10 points from my I.Q. after that...put me in single digits!

Have witnessed it before.

I shot one out of a tree last spring

Yes, several times. They use them as an escape route sometimes. I have seen them feed in trees before also.

Yep, a handful of times. One was up pretty high in an oak tree.

Yup. A number of times. Definitely not as agile as a tree rat but they can climb.

Had a beagle who treed a woodchuck one time.  That dog was ecstatic!  A snuffer through the skull ruined the woodchucks day.

Here in PA I've seen them climb up into the Mulberry trees in the spring.  They're pretty good climbers.

Have had my beagles run them up in honeysuckle bushes a lot! They can get up in there pretty quickly!

I've seen them in a tree many times, have shot a few of them.  My dog's have treed them.  Years ago I hunted a orchard and one particular groundhog would bask in the sun on a big apple tree limb ten feet up.

Heavens, yes.  I've shot one that had climbed well up the trunk of a spruce Christmas tree in my parents front yard.  Dad used to have a nice bearing cherry tree out back, and I witnessed a groundhog up in it to harvest some.

Killed several that were trees in an apple orchard I used to live near.

When I was a kid, my sister had a half Walker half Redbone hound named John Yeller who was too lazy to breathe if he didn't have to. One day I heard him barking up the road and I went to investigate. I found him underneath a persimmon tree with a young groundhog up in it about 10 feet. Feeling like the dog had finally redeemed himself, I ran back to the house as fast as I could to get a gun. On my return trip, ole John Yeller met me about half way; leaving his post and letting the whistle pig get away. At least he was consistent about amounting to nothing!

Darren

Seen them in trees many times when I was into chuck hunting big time.

Yepper, had one that would climb a tree and just taunt my dog terrible. One day I seen the hog meesing with my dog. I snuck around the house and shot it off the limb right in my dogs lap. Wish I had a camera as that critters eyes got as big as softballs when my dogs jaws wrapped around it's head, LOL

Yes sir!