https://sites.uwm.edu/badgerresearch/badger-facts/
"Badgers are opportunistic carnivores and will eat almost anything under the size of a woodchuck (groundhog). Badgers are especially adept at capturing burrowing mammals such as woodchucks, ground squirrels, and gophers. Other food items include voles, mice, ground-nesting birds, insects, and carrion."
I am not going to suggest that people in Wisconsin just need more state protected badgers to take care of the woodchuck (and small rodent) problem. I do not know what will then be done as a result of the broken cow leg problem because of all the new badger burrows. As always nature has solutions and in this case its probably wolves. (Which are also state protected, at least in places like Madison with a low gun/capita ratio and anti-farmer agenda.)
Badgers will also take care of the problem their burrows cause if they can get a mound up over the carrion cow before the wolves find out.
Yes I know.....posted to old dead thread!