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, ...

The Richardson's ground squirrel destroys crops and creates burrows that can damage machinery and endanger livestock. The use ...

MANKATO, Minn. -- Elaine Poulson is accustomed to counting gopher tails. They're delivered in plastic bags or cheap bins, and Poulson counts each one. In Lafayette Township of Minnesota's Nicollet ...

Ray Festa, UCCE Master Gardener, demonstrates how to place a trapline gopher trap in a gopher hole. Joe Johnston jjohnston@thetribunenews.com Have you ever discovered dirt mounds in the middle of your ...

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 ...