NAMPA — The Canyon County pest control district has declared one rodent a pest worth trapping: the pocket gopher. Gopher trapper and Canyon County Gopher Control supervisor Jim Martell said he sets ...

Abstract: We investigated the efficiency of DK-1 and Macabee® pocket gopher (Geomys bursarius) traps placed in lateral tunnels in both open and closed tunnel sets in rangeland and nonirrigated alfalfa ...

‘I am getting these mounds of dirt in my yard. Something must be digging. Do I have moles, and if so, how do I get rid of them?” — L.S. Pocket gophers leave mounds of dirt, and moles leave raised dirt ...

MANKATO, Minn. -- Elaine Poulson is accustomed to counting gopher tails. They're delivered in plastic bags or cheap bins, and Poulson counts each one. In Lafayette Township of Minnesota's Nicollet ...

For the last couple of summers, my neighbor and I have been dealing with a pocket gopher invasion that is getting closer to our joint fruit orchard. Their familiar mounds kept appearing around the ...

MANKATO — Elaine Poulson is now accustomed to counting gopher tails. They’re delivered in plastic bags or cheap bins, and Poulson counts each one. In Nicollet County’s Lafayette Township, each pocket ...

The extension office often receives inquiries from homeowners about little crit ters that dig holes in their yard. They are usually rodents — some excavate mounds of soil, others just create holes in ...

Soil is fundamental to our gardens and landscapes. Here in the west, we often find ourselves in a battle over that space and what we grow in it with a small rodent – the pocket gopher. I first ...

Oftentimes when I have a conversation with someone about a critter that is tearing up their lawns, they will blame either a mole or a gopher. And more often than not, the damage is attributed to the ...