#thomomys

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Camas Pocket Gopher Thomomys bulbivorus

The largest of the pocket gophers, it is found in Willamette Valley of northwestern Oregon in the United States. It forages for vegetable and plant matter, which it collects in large, fur-lined, external cheek pouches. Surplus food is hoarded in an extensive system of tunnels.

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Botta's pocket gopher (Thomomys bottae)

Photo by Robyn Waayers

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😠 A pocket-gopher killed one of my Silver Mound Plants (Artemisia schmidtiana). Here you can see that the plants on either side are green and alive. The one in the middle is dry and dead because the pocket-gopher dug under it and damaged the roots. You can see the loose dirt that the pocket-gopher kicked up while digging. The dirt is covering part of the garden hose.

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Townsend's Pocket Gopher Thomomys townsendii

Lives in the northwestern United States. They have a fur-lined cheek pouch on either side of the mouth, the reason they are called "pocket gopher". They feed largely on the root-stalks of saltgrass, but also other grasses, alfalfa, and large rooted plants, including agricultural crops such as potatoes.

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Northern Pocket Gopher Thomomys talpoides

A small gopher found in the western United States and Canada. Northern pocket gophers rarely appear above ground; when they do, they rarely venture more than 2.5 feet from a burrow entrance. Underground, however, they often have tunnels that extend hundreds of feet where they live, store food, and give birth to their young.

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Botta's pocket gopher (Thomomys bottae)

Photo by Gary Skipper

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(Evidence of my yardwork nemesis, the pocket-gopher. During an hour that I spent pulling grass out of the flower garden, this little villain was hard at work digging yet another burrow and creating yet another pile of dirt.)

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