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 ...

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 ...

Humans are not the only animals that practice agriculture. Leaf-cutter ants, for example, painstakingly carry leaves back to their nest to cultivate a fungus that they feed upon. Some beetles also ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...