 Woodrats are seldom found near human habitation and, unlike introduced rat species that came to America from Europe and Asia, woodrats are not attracted to or known to consume garbage.Though it had ended by 2010, the main purpose of the breeding program was to enhance the wild population in order to mitigate the population decline.Divided into a couple of different stages, the first step was to trap woodrats and then to breed them in a controlled, captive environment.