The plains pocket gopher, which ranges over most of Oklahoma is a stocky, short-legged, medium-sized rodent with a body well adapted for digging. It has a broad head with small eyes and ears, exposed yellowish, chisel-like, incisor teeth, a short, sparsely-haired tail and front toes with long, stout claws used in digging. It gets its name from the deep, fur-lined external cheek pouches, in which food, mostly tubers and roots, is carried.
Gophers are underground assassins, tunneling unseen through the soil in search of food. They voraciously consume roots, tubers, and bulbs, push up large mounds of soil, and often tunnel hundreds of feet in a single night.
Gopher traps provide the best control.