Machines for these areas require free-floating hitches and are drawn by tracked vehicles. Poor soil conditions can sometimes limit your success with burrow builders. Also, certain areas, like golf courses, may require less disturbance to sod or plant roots than what burrow builders can provide. Their lips close behind their incisors and make their face look like that of a beaver. On each cheek is a pouch that is used to carry food.
Pocket gophers spend nearly their entire lives underground.
They may only be seen when they excavate soil to the surface or when they disperse to new areas. They create more mounds in spring or fall than in summer and winter. Each adult pocket gopher occupies its own burrow system most of the year. A pocket gopher's burrow system is extensive. Pocket gophers can cause costly damage to native range, pasture and hay fields.