Sentences with gopher
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G g - Thus, mima mounds, an often debated feature of prairie grasslands, are sometimes created by gopher burrowing; and many organisms dwelling on rocky coasts create their own micro-landforms in the form of burrows in which they then live.
- There were gopher tortoises here and above us swallow-tailed kites.
- Dark brown and between seven and 15 inches long, the gopher tortoise is found in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida.
- Pocket gophers, gopher tortoises, ants, badgers, prairie dogs, wild pigs, and grizzly bears are just a few of the animals that can alter ecological structure and function.
- ‘Coyotes, skunks, porcupines, gophers … badgers, white-tail and mule deer - we've seen it all,’ Bruce says.
- Rodenticides control rats, mice, gophers, and other rodent pests of human habitation and agriculture.
- A single pocket gopher may exist within an extensive system of feeding tunnels and chambers.
- Aaron's farm has few drainage problems, but his land, like most gardens in his area, teems with ravenous gophers who seem to crave garlic as avidly as any gourmand.
- Unable to burrow into the hard gravel, the gophers may instead have arranged the topsoil into mound shaped nests that proceeded to grow in size over many generations.
- The gopher tortoise is a large turtle that lives in deep burrows, often up to 25 feet in length, in upland habitats usually dominated by stands of longleaf pines.
- I spent quite a while exploring gopher servers in my first couple of years online, before it became clear that the World Wide Web was so much better at presenting the same sort of information in a format non-techies could grasp.
- If gophers, squirrels or other animal pests are common in your area, planting tasty bulbs, such as lilies, in open soil is a waste of time.
- First, it is likely that the bag fragment was carried underground by a squirrel, gopher or other burrowing rodent.
- Small mammals, especially rodents such as voles, pocket gophers, and mice make up most of the Great Gray Owl's diet.
- In some communities where gophers are abundant, they consume an amazing fraction of the underground productivity of plants.
- To discourage voles or gophers, add a handful of sharp gravel to the planting hole or plant bulbs in wire or fabric baskets.
- In addition, the older gopher content and other non-Web files are unavailable.
- The goal is to conserve gopher tortoises by managing a conservation site of relocated tortoises and residents as a single viable population.
- Captive animals have been known to spread pathogens to wild populations when released - it happened to gopher tortoises in the southwest a while back.
- The eastern indigo snake, which is on the federal list of threatened species, and the gopher tortoise also live here.
- Surrounding habitats with gopher tortoise burrows have likewise been lost to development and land use changes.
- Any feeding mother, any new mother knows that it's like you've been run over by a horse looking for gopher holes, it's very difficult.