Pocket gopher control on Colorado’s Front RangeMounds gone. Lawn back.
Rich finds the main tunnel near the freshest mounds and treats it with pressurized gas.
02 · Gophers
What it is, and what it costs you.
Pocket gophers live almost entirely underground, so you see the damage long before you see a gopher.
Fresh dirt shows up overnight in a lawn, a garden bed or a pasture.
Each gopher runs its own tunnel system, with shallow feeding tunnels under the roots and a deeper nest.
Left alone, one gopher can put up a new mound almost every day.
PERC® is designed for gopher control.
Rich locates the tunnel near the newest mounds and sends pressurized gas through it. The whole run is treated at once.
Field signs
How to tell it is gophers.
Fan-shaped mounds
Fresh soil pushed up in a crescent or fan shape, usually with the hole plugged off to one side.
No open holes
Gophers keep their tunnels closed. An open hole in the middle of a mound usually points to something else.
Plants pulled down
Garden plants and young trees wilt or vanish from below as roots get eaten.
Chewed lines
Drip and sprinkler lines in the root zone can get chewed through.
The PERC® method
Every tunnel, in seconds.
PERC® stands for Pressurized Exhaust Rodent Control.
Instead of a bait on the surface or a trap at one hole, the treatment goes down the burrow and through it.
- 1
Probe in
A probe from the rig goes into each active entrance. Several hoses work at once.
- 2
Pressure on
Pressurized gas, about 2.5 percent carbon monoxide, fills every connected tunnel.
- 3
Purged in seconds
The burrow is purged of air before the rodent can get out another entrance.
The job
How Rich handles it.
Lawns, vegetable gardens, orchards and horse pastures all get gophers along the Front Range.
In a yard the job is usually a handful of fresh mounds. On acreage it can be dozens.
There is no bait to scatter and no traps to set and check every morning.
That matters if you have dogs that dig, or kids who play in the yard.
Rich with the Rodent Ranger was excellent! We had a gopher issue in our yard.
Rich was knowledgeable and explained the process. We felt comfortable with his advice/plan with the holes.
We have not had an issue since.
Read the mounds
Rich looks at where the newest mounds are and which way the tunnel runs between them.
Find the tunnel
A probe locates the main run next to fresh activity. That is where the treatment goes in.
Treat the run
Pressurized gas fills the tunnel system. New mounds after that get a follow-up.
Where
Gophers in these towns.
Pocket Gopher Control is available up to 125 miles from Milliken: Fort Collins, Loveland, Greeley, Denver and the towns below.
Questions
Common questions.
How do I know it is a gopher and not a vole or a mole?
Gopher mounds are fan-shaped with the hole plugged.
Voles leave small open holes and runways in the grass.
Rich can tell you which it is on the walk-through.
Will the gophers come back?
Treated gophers do not.
New ones can move in from neighboring land over time, especially next to open fields.
Call when fresh mounds show up.
How fast does it work?
The pressurized flow purges the tunnel in seconds. Most yards are done in one visit.
Other services
Something else digging?
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Tell Rich what is digging.
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Rich calls back and sets a time to walk the land.
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- HoursOpen 24 hours, every dayAs listed on Google
- PricingFree estimate, priced per holeSet once the land is walked
- Based inMilliken, COServing the Front Range, up to 125 miles out
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