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

Downtown's Pershing Square supports mourning doves, Vaux's swifts, gopher snakes and exotic streaktails, a type of fly that feeds on aphids.

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

It was quick, vicious work, like watching a hound seize a gopher and instantly snap its neck.

One of these species is the endangered dusky gopher frog.