Gopher Stop

This is what happens when you wait too long...

A lot of homeowners think the gophers will eventually leave on their own.

Unfortunately, that’s usually not what happens.

It often starts with:
- one mound
- one tunnel
- one damaged spot

Then over time the tunnel system expands and the lawn damage spreads throughout the yard.

In this Riverside property, you can see how the activity kept moving across the lawn as the gophers continued feeding underground.

The longer active gopher activity remains untreated:

- the more tunnels develop
- the more lawn damage appears
- the harder restoration becomes

Serving Riverside, Temecula & Murrieta

You probably have fewer gophers than you think...
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A question we hear constantly:

"How many gophers do I actually have?"

A lot of homeowners assume every fresh mound means another gopher, but that’s usually not how it works.

In this Riverside yard:
- multiple fresh mounds
- digging in separate spots
- activity spread several feet apart
..but after checking the traps a few days later, there was only ONE active gopher.

Experienced gopher control is often about understanding tunnel patterns and activity behavior — not just counting mounds.

Serving Riverside, Temecula & Murrieta

Have you ever found dirt packed inside your sprinkler valve box like this before?

Gophers will follow irrigation and sprinkler lines underground because they lead them directly to healthy, watered grass and plants.

In this Temecula yard, the gophers packed an entire sprinkler valve box with dirt from their tunnel system.

If you notice:

- dirt inside sprinkler valve boxes
- random sprinkler problems
- fresh gopher mounds in a line

gophers may already be tunneling along your irrigation lines.

Temecula | Riverside | Murrieta

Artificial turf doesn’t stop gophers - it sweeps the problem under the rug.

In Temecula, Murrieta and Riverside, we see this a lot where turf starts feeling uneven or soft due to tunneling underneath.

If your turf has gopher mounds around the edges and doesn’t feel solid anymore, there is already an active gopher below the surface.

Most people assume it’s a whole family of gophers... but that’s usually not the case.

In Riverside, we often see multiple gopher mounds in a lawn which tells us the story of what the gopher or gophers are doing.

If you’re noticing new mounds or expanding areas of lawn damage, there’s a good chance you have an active gopher.

Just installed new sod and seeing this?

Fresh dirt mounds are one of the first signs of gopher activity under new lawns in Murrieta and Temecula

It usually starts before homeowners even realize it’s happening.