gopher n. 1. Any of various short tailed, burrowing mammals of the family Geomyidae, of North America. 2. (Amer. colloq.) Native or inhabitant of Minnesota: the Gopher State. 3. (Amer. colloq.) One ...

DEAR JOAN: Tell us what the gophers do with all the dirt when they make a tunnel. It can be more than 30 feet long but there is only a very small mound on top of the ground. I live where the soil is a ...

Little geysers have sprung up throughout the garden with recent rains. Water flows through gopher tunnels that drain from the open space beyond our property. Gophers must have taken up refuge ...

Gophers are the most active in the spring and the fall. I don’t usually think of gophers as a problem this time of year, but my neighbor across the street has trapped several in the past few weeks and ...

An unexpected sinkhole that killed an Idaho woman was caused partly by gophers tunneling under the road. Sonia Lopez, 32, died on July 14 when her car crashed into the sinkhole on Butte Road in Boise, ...

CORVALLIS – Spring brings buds and blooms, but it also brings moles, voles and gophers. The small mammals take gardeners to their knees to peer down tunnels, set traps and toss in everything from ...

Spring brings buds and blooms, but it also brings moles, voles and gophers. The small mammals take gardeners to their knees to peer down tunnels, set traps and toss in everything from kitty litter to ...

When Jack Putz and his student decided to study root growth in southeastern pocket gopher (Geomys pinetis) tunnels, they didn’t realize how difficult it would be to isolate sections of the underground ...