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Title

POCKET GOPHER DAMAGE TO CONIFERS IN WESTERN FORESTS: A HISTORICAL AND CURRENT PERSPECTIVE ON THE PROBLEM AND ITS CONTROL

Authors

Glenn A. Crouch, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Fort Collins, Colorado

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

March 1986

Pocket gophers (Thomomys spp.) damage or destroy regeneration on hundreds of thousands of acres of forestland in the western United States each year. Despite years of research, poisoning the offending animals—a technique developed around the turn of the century on agricultural land--is still the most prevalent practice for controlling damage on western forests.