As an independent businessman, Steve Salas has but one goal: to build a better gopher trap. That means more of the old-fashioned kind. Although there are now electronic gopher traps on the market, ...

Lori Dunkel spotted a dirt mound in her yard last fall. Next to it was another mound, and another one next to that. “Wow, this is getting worse,” Dunkel recalled telling herself. It was October, she ...

Punxatawney Phil re- treated from his shadow on Gobbler’s Knob, predicting a late spring. That was more than two weeks ago, and we are still waiting for a late rainy season to start. Regardless, ...

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 most traps ...

Q: Help. Gophers have moved into my back yard and are destroying my entire landscape! They have eaten the roots right off my fig tree and several shrubs so that they toppled over. I have tried ...

The Canyon County Pest Control District pays a $1-per-tail bounty for gopher tails delivered to the district office in Caldwell, Idaho. The district also will provide a trapper for small lots at $20 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. OKLAHOMA COUNTY (KFOR) – Darra King Roberson ...

The uneasy truce between myself and the pocket gopher population has been broken. They crossed the line the other day when they entered my potato patch from the pasture. Before the invasion the ...

Hayley Toniello says it was around supper time when her family cat Miss Kitty got let out of the house to explore the yard only to return a few hours later with her paw stuck in a gopher trap. "She ...

Elaine Poulson is now accustomed to counting gopher tails. They’re delivered in plastic bags or cheap bins, and Poulson counts each one. In Nicollet County’s Lafayette Township, each pocket gopher ...