Around Arkansas
Conditions vary across the state. Choose your city below, then describe what’s happening around your home or business.
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Local gopher information
Gopher control in Arkansas
Learn what to look for around your property, explore your city, and ask about an inspection or a quote.
Gophers in Arkansas: what to know
What to note
Where you see gophers, how long it has been going on, and anything you’ve already tried are the most useful details to mention.
A useful next step
Ask about an inspection, what treatment would involve, and whether follow-up visits are included. You don’t need to identify the problem yourself before getting in touch.
Local research
Gophers in Arkansas: what the public record shows
Before you compare quotes, it helps to know which gophers actually live in Arkansas, when they are busiest, and what the state figures look like. Everything below links to the agency or university page it came from.
It is illegal to use poisons, toxins, and fumigants for wildlife control in Arkansas
Toxicants are illegal in Arkansas
Products sold for gopher baiting elsewhere may not be applied here; trapping is the legal remedy.
University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture Cooperative Extension ServiceNongame mammals under the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission Wildlife Code; owner or tenant may remove damaging gophers using traps
Legal status
Covers garden, landscape, crop and pasture damage.
University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture Cooperative Extension ServiceRecorded in 35 of 75 counties, generally the southern half and western third of the state
Arkansas range
Baird's pocket gopher (Geomys breviceps sagittalis) is the common species.
University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture Cooperative Extension ServiceWhen gophers are busiest in Arkansas
Mounds are most pronounced in spring and fall when soil is moist; irrigated lawns can show mounds year-round.
Locally called salamanders or sandy mounders in south Arkansas.
Rules that apply in Arkansas
For context, nationally
- 14 species in 3 genera (Thomomys, Geomys, Pappogeomys) — Pocket gopher species in the U.S.. Internet Center for Wildlife Damage Management
- 200 to 2,000 square feet — Botta's pocket gopher burrow system. UC IPM (University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources)
Sources: University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture Cooperative Extension Service; Internet Center for Wildlife Damage Management; UC IPM (University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources). Figures are quoted as the source prints them. How we check our sources
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