Pocket gophers menace Prairies. trapping urged
A Nature Notes follow-up details how Alberta and other Prairie municipalities study and fight pocket gophers or moles. Biologists estimate one million moles in Lacombe County. they cost farmers 50 million dollars yearly. Dr. Gilbert Proulx leads a research program using poisons and devices, while traps with carrot bait aim for full-time effort to reduce mounds.
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Danny Page
Rosetown Eagle
Council
Fire Department
Prairies
Alberta
Lacombe County
Gilbert Proulx
Proulx
Perennial baby's breath invading roadsides this summer
A reader notes two miles of road with heavy perennial baby's breath infestation spreading from a well kept graveyard plot. The writer warns that minimal tillage could let nearby farmland become infested and urges comments at 764-2128.
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R.M
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