California gophers are rodents with a surprising talent for digging. Their bodies are long and slender, perfectly built for navigating underground tunnels. These little burrowers come in shades of brown or gray, with fur so fine and short it repels...
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Who’s Been Digging in My Yard? – Signs of Gophers
When you find holes, mounds of dirt or torn up turf, in your beautiful landscape, you've been visited by “wildlife” on the hunt for food and/or a place to live. You can identify your trespasser, most often, by the damage they leave behind. So the...
Where Did These Gophers Come From and Why My Yard?
The most asked questions about gophers are; (1.) Why my yard and (2. )where did they suddenly come from? Who Gophers Chose Your Property Gophers migrate from neighboring properties where populations have gotten out of control, or where food...
Gophers Survive Exploding Volcanoes!
Well, we have it from the experts that even a volcanic eruption can’t discourage gophers from their daily tasks of digging holes and burrow systems and eating whatever vegetation they fancy. The May 8th, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens ripped the...
What Do You Give a Gopher for Christmas? The “Boot”!
That gopher that’s been living in your front yard for the last 2 years, now considers himself part of the family. Just like creepy Cousin Earle, that came to visit two Christmases ago and is now living in the basement, your gopher is entrenched...
To Get Rid of Gophers, Prepare for War!
It seems that in the world of “Gopher Control”, nothing is foolproof. Methods of extermination abound and stories of success and failures run rampant. Whether your preferred method is to repel them and make them go elsewhere (like the neighbors’...