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Pocket gopher bounty #6616705
09/14/19 12:07 PM
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Article in the local paper today about how some of the cable companies are matching the bounty on pocket gophers. Seems they have developed a taste for fiber optics cable and it's a good incentive since that would make the bounty in some township's at $10.00 a gopher! Maybe this will get some kids away from their video games and back out in the fields!

Last edited by 20scout; 09/14/19 01:50 PM. Reason: Reworded

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Re: Pocket gopher bounty [Re: 20scout] #6616765
09/14/19 01:53 PM
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Re: Pocket gopher bounty [Re: 20scout] #6617199
09/14/19 09:59 PM
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I saw that same article today. I'm not sure where you live 20scout but I'm in Moe township just south of Brandon and the township is at 5 dollars per gopher and gardonville phone coop will match that. Talking to the phone guys it sounds like the jacket on their new cable has a vegetable oil base to it so it's a buffet for the gophers

Re: Pocket gopher bounty [Re: 20scout] #6617276
09/14/19 11:10 PM
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Re: Pocket gopher bounty [Re: 20scout] #6617546
09/15/19 10:34 AM
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Re: Pocket gopher bounty [Re: 20scout] #6617659
09/15/19 02:08 PM
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Re: Pocket gopher bounty [Re: Tyler D] #6617886
09/15/19 07:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Skunk buster
I saw that same article today. I'm not sure where you live 20scout but I'm in Moe township just south of Brandon and the township is at 5 dollars per gopher and gardonville phone coop will match that. Talking to the phone guys it sounds like the jacket on their new cable has a vegetable oil base to it so it's a buffet for the gophers

I'm in Carlos township and just got them to bump it up to $3 last year. Sounds Gardonville may extend that offer here in the near future. Glad the bounty is that high but sucks that gophers are worth more than muskrats!


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Re: Pocket gopher bounty [Re: 20scout] #6617923
09/15/19 08:14 PM
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Re: Pocket gopher bounty [Re: 20scout] #6750790
01/30/20 01:33 PM
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does anyone have a link to the article?

Re: Pocket gopher bounty [Re: 20scout] #6750791
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does anyone have a link to the article?

Re: Pocket gopher bounty [Re: 20scout] #6750994
01/30/20 03:46 PM
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Our township pays 2.50 until they run out of funds

Re: Pocket gopher bounty [Re: trapperroscoe] #6751525
01/30/20 10:32 PM
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Originally Posted by trapperroscoe
does anyone have a link to the article?

It was printed in our local paper earlier but I don't know how to access it. But you can call Gardonville and talk to them about it.


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Re: Pocket gopher bounty [Re: 20scout] #6802586
03/15/20 01:43 AM
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Originally Posted by 20scout
...sucks that gophers are worth more than muskrats!

Yep.

$1.50 here per gopher, plus some landowners kick in a stipend. Not as many gophers here anymore though---many seem to think it is due to anhydrous ammonia placed in ag fields as a fertilizer.

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Re: Pocket gopher bounty [Re: 20scout] #6804336
03/16/20 01:28 PM
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Talked to a guy this weekend who said their township just raised to bounty to $7.00 since they can't get any kids to trap gophers. Too bad it's over an hour drive for me to that township.


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Re: Pocket gopher bounty [Re: 20scout] #6805080
03/16/20 11:14 PM
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Did he happen to say what township it was?

Re: Pocket gopher bounty [Re: Lancer] #6806448
03/17/20 09:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Lancer
Did he happen to say what township it was?

No, sorry he didn't.


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