Thank you for your helpful responses. We will pursue trapping, which sounds like the method that most have found to be effective. We were hoping that cutting back all vegetation over and around the drainfield would encourage the gopher(s) to move to another part of our lot, but so far that does not ...

We discovered a pocket gopher minefield in our drainfield while doing firewise weedwhacking. Advice from septic service is to get rid of gophers asap before they destroy the drainfield. We need advice about the most effective way of ridding our drainfield of the pocket gophers. Has anyone used a pro...