Berkeley to kill squirrels, gophers at Cesar Chavez Park By Carolyn Jones Updated Feb 19, 2014 1:53 p.m. A ground squirrel is perched on rocks near the trail at Cesar Chavez Park in Berkeley ...

The Government of Alberta is calling for strychnine to be unbanned for use on Richardson's ground squirrels, commonly ...

In Berkeley, squirrels are in the crossfire. In an attempt to make sure no toxins leak out of the old landfill under Cesar Chavez Park and leach into San Francisco Bay, Berkeley is hiring a pest ...

We can thank the University of Minnesota for popularizing an obscure but charismatic little mammal. In 1926, Clarence Spears, coach of the football team, officially branded the squad the “Golden ...

What is a “golden gopher"? It’s the 13-lined ground squirrel, a relative of prairie dogs. Ground squirrels and their prairie-dog brethren are primarily westerners.

Our fence was 5 to 6 feet tall, but ground squirrels also climb, so we added a battery operated shock wire to the top of the fence. We’ve since moved locations, but we have the same set-up.

For starters, they're actually squirrels, a zoologist says. ... Michener — who has studied them for 40 years — said that the tiny, burrowing creatures really are squirrels, and not gophers.

Of all the rodents that Elizabeth Parsons has worked with—among them, mice, rats, and squirrels galore—pocket gophers are “probably the feistiest,” she told me. Aboveground, they’ve got ...

Our fence was 5 to 6 feet tall, but ground squirrels also climb, so we added a battery operated shock wire to the top of the fence. We’ve since moved locations, but we have the same set-up.