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 ...

Missing plants and lawn tunnels surrounded by a crescent of dirt can be a sign of gophers. Here’s what to do. zhuclear / Getty Images North America has about 40 species of gophers or “pocket gophers,” ...

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 ...

Q: I have a resident gopher in my lawn. We’re on speaking terms, but unfortunately I can’t write what I have been saying to it. I asked my neighbor for advice and he advised me to stand patiently over ...

Gophers are small, furry rodents that burrow tunnels through yards of North America and Central America. Their full name is pocket gopher because they have external fur-lined cheek pouches, or pockets ...

Of all the rodents that Elizabeth Parsons has worked with—among them, mice, rats, and squirrels galore—pocket gophers are “probably the feistiest,” she told me. Aboveground, they’ve got a bad rap for ...