
Plains Pocket Gopher
The Plains Pocket Gopher is usually a landscape rather than a sighting: fresh fan-shaped soil, a plugged side entrance, and a loose procession of mounds mapping a sealed tunnel below.
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The Plains Pocket Gopher is usually a landscape rather than a sighting: fresh fan-shaped soil, a plugged side entrance, and a loose procession of mounds mapping a sealed tunnel below.

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Follow this jewel-colored char from shaded headwaters to Adirondack ponds, where water quality shapes its future.