Their technicians are trained to apply these methods in a way that minimizes harm to other animals or nearby plants, keeping ...

After the volcanic eruption of 1980, scientists released the burrowing rodents for only a brief time, but their activities ...

A team of American scientists sought to learn whether an American team of burrowing rodents could help restore Mount St ...

In 1980, the eruption of Mount St. Helens devastated local ecosystems, but an experimental introduction of gophers has ...

W hen Mount St Helens erupted in 1980, the resulting lava, ash, and debris turned the landscape barren for miles around. It ...

By 1983, the areas around Mount St. Helens chosen for the gopher experiment were heaps of "collapsing slabs of porous pumice.

Six years after the brief gopher intervention, however, the two plots of land hosted 40,000 thriving plants. In stark contract, the surrounding region was still mostly barren. In just 24 hours, ...

Never underestimate what a single gopher can achieve in a day: one of the burrowing mammals helped boost soil fungi in an area blanketed by ash from the explosive eruption of Mount St Helens in Washin ...

The Gophers men's basketball team has started the 2024-25 regular season 2-0, but it has come with plenty of ups and downs. Veteran guard Mike Mitchell Jr. suffered an ankle injury in the team's ...

The Minnesota Golden Gophers (6-3, 4-2) take on the Rutgers Scarlet Knights (4-4, 1-4) at SHI Stadium in Piscataway, New Jersey on Saturday. The Gophers are seeking their fifth consecutive win as ...

The Gophers’ outlook for a bowl game in the Sunshine State grew cloudy on Saturday. Going into Saturday’s game at Rutgers, Minnesota was a six-point favorite to get its seventh win this season ...

Gophers running back Darius Taylor, middle, has 644 rushing yards and 315 receiving yards in eight games. (Ayrton Breckenridge/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...