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

During the summers, I interned with the animation department as a gopher.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2025

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

A well-grown gopher took up residence in a thicket of mallow weeds in the vacant lot on Cannery Row.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck