Gopher Trapping | Introduction

Gopher Trapping | Introduction

Southern Pocket Gophers, are the nemesis of golf course superintendents, athletic field managers, and home lawn enthusiasts throughout the South. Tunneling is what they like to do, and, what they do best. They can drive you to insanity with the tunnels and the tell tale mounds cropping up in the most unexpected and inconvenient places on your property. Every year they are responsible for numerous ankle and knee injuries, some career ending, in young athletes, on athletic fields throughout the South.

They do provide a certain recreational aspect to life in the South, it involves a six pack of cold beer, a folding lawn chair placed downwind from a fresh mound, and a shotgun! Recreational value aside, they can be pretty destructive to lawns.

There are several methods of dealing with them, ranging from a propane gadget, that fills the tunnels with gas, ignites the gas, and blows the toothy little vermin to “kingdom come,” to various types of strychnine laced grain, and of course, the beer and shotgun method.

There is another way. The least expensive, and least hazardous route is by using gopher traps created for the job. Let me warn you from the outset, that this is not a job for the squeamish!

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