Molehills in pasture.

[MNBobcat]

Best thing to do is get rid of the gophers they will make the land worse as time goes on.

I live just north of Edmonton too just looking at your location. I had a pocket gopher infestation but not anymore.

How did you get rid of them?

 

[EastTexFrank]

In our part of Texas we poison the little suckers. Our local feed store will rent you the drill and sell you the "doctored" grain. You run around your pasture injecting the grain into the ground, the gophers find and eat the grain, poof - no more gophers.

 

[Sackett2]

Get a BIG mallet, wait until they stick there heads up then wack 'em. This will get rid of the gophers, and help flatten the mounds.

 

[alltoys]

How did you get rid of them?

Found the best way was to trap them.

 

[pitt_md]

It's not rain drainage I'm concerned about. It's from the irrigation. My present tree yard is 3 acres. land near the trees gets watered every 2 days. Tree containers drain excess water. I don't KNOW that it would become a muddy mess with the gophers, but I don't want to find out the hard way.

Getting rid of the pocket gophers from a small field is a continuous battle, as they will keep coming in. I fgiure that learning to live with them makes as much sense.

Getting rid of their food is an interesting idea. My understanding is that these guys are generalist vegetarians, and so eat most any tuber, fleshy root they find. Just how do I do this?

Kill the little pests! They will kill your trees and other vegitation. The battle becomes easier if you can eliminate outside they migrate in from. I had a very hard time until I tilled up my fields around the yard. Now its seems pretty much under control.

 

[kf4uda]

As far as getting rid of the gophers goes, get you a couple of Jack Russell dogs. They will get rid of them for you. Otherwise sounds like the dethatcher or landscape rake is a pretty good idea.

 

[pitt_md]

Rodenators really do work. Pricy but effective.

 

[myyaz33]

take out a grandson or son and teach him how to shoot properly.

 

[123rday]

Sorry to cut in.
I'm having pretty much the same problem with moles in my lawn. Just purchased the house in Nov '08, haven't seen much mole activity in years anywhere I've been, but now with the warm months here, It's like I need to roll my yard (about 2.5 acres) daily. I've tried Bayers grub control to try and calm down their food source, but to no avail. Considering traps next, but where do you place them? I've heard at the end of the trails.
TSC carry the poison? What's the name of it? Thanks for the info. (Tired of the dirt piling up preventing mowing)

 

[dirt ditch]

take out a grandson or son and teach him how to shoot properly.

That is how we do it. Shoot 'em when you see 'em digging.