POCKET GOPHERS

[Illustration: Typical mountain range land, heavily infested with

pocket gophers--Davis Lake, Oregon--before treatment.]

[Illustration: Same area one year later after pocket gophers were

brought under control and native grasses had had a chance to reseed.]

[Illustration: Farm land infestation--Texas. Mounds represent pocket

gopher workings.]

[Illustration: 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.]

[Illustration: Pocket gopher infestation--Louisiana.]

[Illustration: Break in terrace caused by pocket gophers burrowing

through embankment.]

[Illustration: Pocket gopher infestation along highway.]

[Illustration: Flood water starting through a pocket gopher burrow

passed under a cement highway,--]

[Illustration: Flooded the barrow pit on the opposite side of road, and

poured into farmer's field, leaving a deep wash as a monument.]

[Illustration: Damage starting from pocket gopher hole in irrigation

canal bank--]

[Illustration: Soon results in bad breaks causing expensive repairs and

loss to crops through failure of irrigation water.--]

[Illustration: And is often responsible for start of gullies.]

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