Buy a bunch of traps and learn how to use them.

I've had them push through the gaps in huge pieces of flagstone, and make the rest look like a drunk person leveled them, after tunneling under the driveway to get there.

Agree with Nil13, trapping until they're gone is the only way to go. We went through a ton of different types of traps, most of them not working at all with the pocket gophers, until we found these.

YES! after 30 years of battling gophers with every deterrent/killer ever thought of, the Cinch Traps worked. I keep two of them set and ready to stick in any new hole I find. Don't waste your time/money on anything else. Min

A pest control firm can rid all your Gophers, at least those that are there now, but expect more to move in. Learning to trap them is the best in the long run. The Cinch traps mentioned above are the best but will require some strength to set them. Al

We've had good luck with the Gophenator brand traps.http://www.traplineproducts.com/

It's an improved Macabee type trap that has a better trip mechanism and are stainless steel. We're also always looking for more and/or better ways so I'll check out the Chinch traps also.

Yep, learning to trap is always the best as more WILL move in. My husband and I have found that consistent and rigorous trapping in the spring is the key to control. Getting large breeding adults before they breed helps tremendously. And then late spring and early summer you'll get most of the young that are born, when they leave the nest. If you trap a lot during this time frame, after two or so years you will have reduced the population to manageable levels. If you fail to trap at this time of the year, you can have a population boom in a very short time and be back to square one.

Note I said manage and control. I've found it's almost impossible to totally eliminate gophers once they've discovered your yard. But you can keep them to small numbers that do little damage. And don't believe the info out there that they are territorial and that you won't have more than one gopher per acre. That's not true. We have 1.4 acres and two years ago we caught over 30 of them. With consistent spring and summer trapping we got it down to about 16 last year and so far this year only two.

Good luck!

Buy a bunch of traps and learn how to use them.

Good advice. Please don't use poison, as you can end up poisoning all kinds of raptors. Putting up a perch that a raptor can use to scan for rodents is a easy way to get free help in keeping your property clear of rodents.

Thank you for reminding everyone not to use poisons, hoovb! It akes me hurt to see them so prominently for sale at the big box stores, and everywhere else. I wish all the nurseries would stop selling them- that could help make the change in peoples' thinking that is so badly needed. A perch is a great idea!

A friend here with rural property found no matter how successful his trapping, until his neighbors allowed him to trap on their property he could not get control. Al

I've tried gum, flooding, box traps, and a neighbor's cat (10% effective), but Cinch traps are the only ones that work for me. I recently bought a different kind at the hardware store because they look almost the same and it was convenient, but they were too big and never got tripped. You can get Cinch traps in a smaller size (for pocket gophers) and most of the time (90%) they catch one in a day. Recently I had a gopher that was able to fill the hole without tripping the trap. It took a couple of weeks, but I got him! I've had the same 2 traps for a couple years now and they still work fine (27 gophers and counting...) Once they started getting rusty, but steel wool and keeping them in the garage fixed that.

Definitely avoid poisons. They don't work well, and aside from poisoning other beneficial wildlife, they also poison pet cats that may eat the dead gophers, and sometimes catch live ones!