NAMPA — The Canyon County pest control district has declared one rodent a pest worth trapping: the pocket gopher.

Abstract: We investigated the efficiency of DK-1 and Macabee® pocket gopher (Geomys bursarius) traps placed in lateral tunnels in both open and closed tunnel sets in rangeland and nonirrigated alfalfa ...

It’s actually a good idea to use two traps placed appropriately because you can’t be sure which direction the pocket gopher will be coming from.

Striped gophers -- actually ground squirrels -- sometimes are caught in the traps, but they don't dig the holes themselves and they typically earn only half the bounty of a pocket gopher.

Striped gophers — actually ground squirrels — are sometimes caught in the traps, but they don’t dig the holes themselves and they typically earn only half the bounty of a pocket gopher.

A homeowner with a pocket gopher problem told me that she once watched as a flower literally disap peared into the ground. Pocket gophers can be trapped rather easily and the traps are available ...

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 ...

In this case, traps would be a better choice. Gopher traps come in a variety of styles, but I have had good luck with the spring-loaded trap variety. They look kind of like an extreme mouse trap.