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Rodents are digging into Canada?EUR??,,????'?????<????????????EUR??,,??s vast western plains and in the pockets of superintendents, landscapers and farmers, who say they?EUR??,,????'?????<????????????EUR??,,??ve been left with no means to curb a gopher baby boom after an effective pesticide was banned. The gophers (or Richardson?EUR??,,????'?????<????????????EUR??,,??s ground squirrel) has long been a part of life on the prairies, but their numbers spiked after the federal government banned the use of liquid strychnine in the late 1990s because the poison also killed animals that eat gophers, including hawks, foxes and weasels. Ground squirrels of various species are often called gophers, although the name most precisely refers to pocket gophers of the family Geomyidae. The pesticide was a replaced with a much less potent version that farmers now say is ineffective. ?EUR??,,????'?????<????????We?EUR??,,????'?????<????????????EUR??,,??re still trying to understand how things got so bad,?EUR??,,????'?????<???????? said Gilbert Proulx, a wildlife biologist hired by Ottawa to try to stem the critter baby boom. He is testing new poisons on plots in southwest Saskatchewan. The damage from the gopher infestation is about $200 million (Canadian) each year on the prairies, not including money farmers spend to try to control the gopher population, according to a Canadian government estimate. Source: AFP
Rodents are digging into Canada?EUR??,,????'?????<????????????EUR??,,??s vast western plains and in the pockets of superintendents, landscapers and farmers, who say they?EUR??,,????'?????<????????????EUR??,,??ve been left with no means to curb a gopher baby boom after an effective pesticide was banned.
The gophers (or Richardson?EUR??,,????'?????<????????????EUR??,,??s ground squirrel) has long been a part of life on the prairies, but their numbers spiked after the federal government banned the use of liquid strychnine in the late 1990s because the poison also killed animals that eat gophers, including hawks, foxes and weasels.
Ground squirrels of various species are often called gophers, although the name most precisely refers to pocket gophers of the family Geomyidae.
The pesticide was a replaced with a much less potent version that farmers now say is ineffective.
?EUR??,,????'?????<????????We?EUR??,,????'?????<????????????EUR??,,??re still trying to understand how things got so bad,?EUR??,,????'?????<???????? said Gilbert Proulx, a wildlife biologist hired by Ottawa to try to stem the critter baby boom. He is testing new poisons on plots in southwest Saskatchewan.
The damage from the gopher infestation is about $200 million (Canadian) each year on the prairies, not including money farmers spend to try to control the gopher population, according to a Canadian government estimate.
Source: AFP
Francisco Uviña, University of New Mexico
Hardscape Oasis in Litchfield Park
Ash Nochian, Ph.D. Landscape Architect
November 12th, 2025
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