Educational resources on Northern Pocket Gopher

Northern Pocket Gopher or Thomomys talpoides is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Lower Risk/Least Concern . IUCN Profile of the Northern Pocket Gopher

Academic web links for the Northern Pocket Gopher.

NDIS Northern Pocket Gopher Wildlife Page
Habitat: They are found in many different habitat types including agricultural and pasture lands, semidesert shrublands, and grasslands at lower elevations upwards into alpine
ndis.nrel.colostate.edu/wildlifespx.asp?SpCode=050047

Northern Pocket Gopher
Order: Rodentia Order Description: Rodents Family: Geomy idae Family Description: Pocket Gophers
imnh.isu.edu/digitalatlas/bio/mammal/Rod/Gophers/npogo/npgo.htm

Pocket Gophers Management Guidelines--UC IPM
UC home and landscape guidelines for control of Pocket Gophers.
www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7433.html

North American Mammals: Thomomys talpoides
Of all North American pocket gophers, the Northern Pocket Gopher has the widest distribution, across most of the western United States and south-central Canada, and it occurs in
www.mnh.si.edu/mna/image_info.cfm?species_id=407

Managing Pocket Gophers
The northern pocket gopher usually is dark-colored with a whitish chin and belly whereas the Botta's pocket gopher is often reddish-brown with a blackish chin and reddish belly.
www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/natres/06515.html

Ponderosa Pine Forests: Fauna: Northern Pocket Gopher (Thomomys ...
Northern Pocket Gopher - Thomomys talpoides Links to Web Resources. Thomomys talpoides - National Museam of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
arsc.arid.arizona.edu/watershed/species4.asp?veg=ponderosapine&crit=fauna&genus=Thomomys&...

ADW: Thomomys talpoides: Information
One northern pocket gopher was witnessed stuffing its pouches so full of alfalfa that the pouches were dragging on the ground! This species is known to eat its feces, and to cache
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Thomomys_talpoides.html

Northern Pocket Gopher
Uses a variety of habitats and vegetation types, including ponderosa pine, preferring Northern Pocket Gopher
wfs.sdstate.edu/sdgap/mammal/mammalhabitat/Northern%20Pocket%20Gopher.pdf

Lewis and Clark as Naturalists
Northern Pocket Gopher. Capt. Lewis, April 9, 1805--Capt. Clark walked on shore to-day and informed me
www.mnh.si.edu/lewisandclark/species.cfm?id=213

Idaho Pocket Gopher
Probably similar to northern pocket gopher , a female produces a litter of 4 to 7 young after a Gestation period of 19 to 20 days. Conservation:
imnh.isu.edu/digitalatlas/bio/mammal/Rod/Gophers/idpogo/ipgo.htm