The Plains Pocket Gopher’s range extends throughout much of the Great Plains region of North America and this gopher is found in suitable habitats throughout North Texas and Southwestern Oklahoma. The ...

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 ...

Did you guess the name of the animal I spotted on my walk to the mailbox? Last week I wrote about close encounters I've had with critters on my daily trek to pick up the mail. This one had a chubby ...

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 ...

The rodent popularly known as a pocket gopher can glow, it turns out, but only if you shine a UV light on it. The discovery was detailed in a new study from the University of Georgia, which reports ...

Pocket gophers certainly don’t qualify as card-carrying 4-H members, but the rodents might be farming roots in the open air of their moist, nutrient-rich tunnels. The gophers subsist mostly on roots ...

One of my first lessons in home gardening was learning how evil pocket gophers are. I vividly remember sitting at my kitchen table, seven months pregnant, looking at all our baby plants in our new ...

If those telltale mounds of freshly upturned earth in your garden make you hiss like an agitated house cat, you'll want to learn the best ways to keep your garden gopher-free during a workshop on ...

Researchers suggest that root cropping by the small rodents could be the first case of nonhuman mammalian farming. By Oliver Whang There are probably a few things that come to mind when you think of ...