gopher

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His Turner Endangered Species Fund, launched in June 1997, has worked to save gopher tortoises, monarch butterflies and leopard frogs, working mainly with private landowners.

From Barron's • May 6, 2026

When the New England Patriots signed Mike Vrabel as a young linebacker in 2001, they sent a gopher from the team’s personnel department to scoop him up at the airport.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

Its two baseball fields were so pockmarked by gopher holes that even walking over them was difficult.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2024

The trust removed poison from the course’s maintenance shed, along with poison and gopher traps throughout the site, Garrison said.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 18, 2024

She isn’t likely to see many humans out here, only coyotes and gopher snakes and worse.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti