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gopher

Graduate education A denigrating term for a medical student who is treated as a scut monkey and told to get things for the department through which he or she is rotating at the time. See Rotater, Scut monkey.
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"By managing and conserving forests and trees for gopher tortoises, we also conserve forests that provide lumber for homes and pulp for paper, green space for recreation and clean air and clean water."
A Race for Survival: At the Starting Line
Using the 11 remaining variables (Table 1), we constructed 15 models testing hypotheses, based on previous literature, regarding the relative importance of understory vegetation structure, soil characteristics, and a combination of vegetation and soil characteristics on predicting southeastern pocket gopher presence or absence.
Understory Vegetation Structure and Soil Characteristics of Geomys pinetis (Southeastern Pocket Gopher) Habitat in Southwestern Georgia
Comparative analysis of burrow systems of seven species of pocket gophers (Rodentia: Geomyidae).
Tunnel co-habitation by plains pocket gopher (Geomys bursarius) and eastern mole (Scalopus aquaticus)
We transported pocket gophers in three separate events: 19-20 February 2014, 24-25 February 2014, and 21-22 March 2014.
Impact of capture and transportation methods on survival of small rodents during relocation events
Most states prohibit keeping a gopher tortoise as a pet.
The gopher tortoise
Of the species encountered growing on the pocket gopher mounds in the disturbed dry sand prairie six were annuals and three were perennials.
Vegetation of plains pocket gopher (Geomys bursarius) mounds at Henry Allan Gleason Nature Preserve, Mason County, Illinois
Junge says he plans on taking extra precautions with his pricey gopher feet in the future.
Gopher Feet Allegedly Stolen By Mother And Son, Tina Garrison And Junior Dillon Face Felony Charges
Instead, he recommended puncture traps like Macabee Gopher Trap or his favorite, the Gophinator, which are small and easy to position in tunnels.
Rodent control for vineyards: grapegrowers learn that eliminating pocket gophers is no simple matter
In 1960, Siebert guided a Gopher team made up of 18 Minnesota natives to the school's second CWS championship.
University of Minnesota Baseball
In this study we examined effects of cattle grazing on pocket gopher densities in high elevation meadows of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
The influence of cattle grazing on pocket gophers in the Central Sierra Nevada Mountains, California: potential implications for Great Gray Owls
Farmer Burrows' field has been infested by gophers! At first these creatures amuse him, but then crops are eaten and the gopher holes prove dangerous to his cattle.
The Gophers in Farmer Burrows' Field
Keywords: Density, distribution, Geomys bursarius, plains pocket gopher, program DISTANCE
Distribution of the plains pocket gopher (Geomys bursarius) in the grassland physiographic regions of Indiana

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