NAMPA — The Canyon County pest control district has declared one rodent a pest worth trapping: the pocket gopher.

Moles, voles and gophers all create tunnels and are active underground, but what they eat and the damage they cause varies.

Missing plants and lawn tunnels surrounded by a crescent of dirt can be a sign of gophers. Here’s what to do. zhuclear / Getty Images North America has about 40 species of gophers or “pocket ...

The Plains Pocket Gopher’s range extends throughout much of the Great Plains region of North America.

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 ...

Pocket gophers don’t identify as farmers, so not farmers in this sense, either. When posed with the question, the Florida Farm Bureau directed me to its guide on statutory exemptions and ...