POCKET GOPHERS
Typical mountain range land, heavily infested with pocket gophers—Davis Lake, Oregon—before treatment.
Same area one year later after pocket gophers were brought under control and native grasses had had a chance to reseed.
Farm land infestation—Texas. Mounds represent pocket gopher workings.
Mountain meadow in Utah. Picture taken just after snow had melted in spring. Ridges of dirt show extent of pocket gopher operations under snow in winter.
Pocket gopher infestation—Louisiana.
Break in terrace caused by pocket gophers burrowing through embankment.
| Pocket gopher infestation along highway. | |
| Flood water starting through a pocket gopher burrow passed under a cement highway,— | |
| Flooded the barrow pit on the opposite side of road, and poured into farmer's field, leaving a deep wash as a monument. |
| Damage starting from pocket gopher hole in irrigation canal bank— | |
| Soon results in bad breaks causing expensive repairs and loss to crops through failure of irrigation water.— | |
| And is often responsible for start of gullies. |