Gophers are burrowing rodents which live almost entirely underground. Gophers are well adapted to their underground existence, with stout forelegs and strong curved claws for digging. They have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...