NAMPA — The Canyon County pest control district has declared one rodent a pest worth trapping: the pocket gopher. Gopher trapper and Canyon County Gopher Control supervisor Jim Martell said he sets ...

If those telltale mounds of freshly upturned earth in your garden make you hiss like an agitated house cat, you'll want to learn the best ways to keep your garden gopher-free during a workshop on ...

A Richardson's ground squirrel in Calgary's Fish Creek Provincial Park. The province is calling for the federal government to reverse a ban on strychnine to allow for better control of the rodent's ...

Recent calls for the reintroduction of the banned substance strychnine to help with “gopher problems” prompted the Shaunavon Standard to seek out pest control expert Dr. James Tansey, provincial ...

Starting next year, farmers can't use strychnine to control gopher populations Rural municipalities in Saskatchewan's southwest say they are being overrun by Richardson's ground squirrels, also known ...

Kyle MacLintock and Erika Schuurmans were hosting a barbecue in June 2017 on their rural acreage in a picturesque valley in Indian Head, Sask., when their dog Roo broke into seizures. They rushed to ...

The rising gopher population in Weyburn, Sask., has city officials concerned. The city says the surge in Richardson ground squirrels – more commonly known as gophers – in recent years has resulted in ...

The Richardson's ground squirrel is the most common "gopher" around here, but there are some lesser-known relatives roaming the foothills and fields of Alberta. Naturalist Brian Keating headed south ...