While gophers and groundhogs are often mistaken for one another, there are key differences in their size, appearance, ...

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.

As pocket gophers dig their tunnels, they have to do something with the soil they are excavating, so they push it out via holes in their tunnel to form mounds. These mounds vary in shape from ...

Called pocket gophers because of their furry cheek pouches that carry food and nesting materials, these critters are larger than either moles or voles, ranging from 6- to 10-inches long.

Earlier this week the federal U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decided to list the tiny Mazama pocket gopher as protected under the Endangered Species Act. But the Freedom Foundation’s Trent ...

Over a few months, she set about 500 hundred traps and has caught 60 pocket gophers. “I thought I was killing it, then I saw another hole … caught three little babies.