Hauling field gear up Gothic Mountain…
Little information is to be found in the literature on periodic fluctuations or cycles in pocket gopher populations. Kalmbach, in January, 1950, prepared a typewritten report on the results of the Grand Mesa pocket gopher study in Colorado, in which he stated in part: “The high of 1945 and that of 1949 with the intervening lows would indicate that there may be some periodic fluctuation in the gopher population on the Mesa since the man-days of trapping in the several years were not greatly different.” A joint study between the Forest Service and the Fish and Wildlife Service was undertaken in 1942 on the Manti-LaSal Forest in central Utah to determine what effects pocket gophers have on the vegetation found on the high summer range. As a part of the study, a fenced 4-acre plot was selected, one half of which was to be trapped...
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