ZUMBRO FALLS — Ralph Waldo Emerson is credited with saying, "Build a better mouse trap and the world will beat a path to your door." If that is the case, then Ken Sprick, 79, of Zumbro Falls might ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

Question: Gophers are wrecking my garden. What can I do to stop them? A: Take heart. We have some tips for managing them. Five species of pocket gophers are found in California, with Botta’s pocket ...

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 ...

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 ...

Buried 8 to 10 inches underground in the Great Divide Basin is a mammal that exists only in Wyoming. The Wyoming pocket gopher is, in fact, the only mammal that exists only in Wyoming. It has tiny ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In the half of an exclosure where pocket gopher populations were uncontrolled, dandelion was eliminated from the community and the aboveground ...