SARM President Bill Huber said the association had received a verbal commitment from Ottawa to review the use of strychnine ...

If those telltale mounds of freshly upturned earth in your garden make you hiss like an agitated house cat, you'll want to learn the best ways to keep your garden gopher-free during a workshop on ...

Kyle MacLintock and Erika Schuurmans were hosting a barbecue in June 2017 on their rural acreage in a picturesque valley in Indian Head, Sask., when their dog Roo broke into seizures. They rushed to ...

WATCH: Sask. formers are calling on Ottawa to bring back strychnine, saying gophers are causing millions of dollars in damage ...

Starting next year, farmers can't use strychnine to control gopher populations Rural municipalities in Saskatchewan's southwest say they are being overrun by Richardson's ground squirrels, also known ...

1:49 Farmers looking for ways to protect crops as gopher population rises City officials want to ensure residents take precautions to avoid areas targeted for application, particularly with children ...

A Richardson's ground squirrel in Calgary's Fish Creek Provincial Park. The province is calling for the federal government to reverse a ban on strychnine to allow for better control of the rodent's ...

Recent calls for the reintroduction of the banned substance strychnine to help with “gopher problems” prompted the Shaunavon Standard to seek out pest control expert Dr. James Tansey, provincial ...

The Richardson's ground squirrel is the most common "gopher" around here, but there are some lesser-known relatives roaming the foothills and fields of Alberta. Naturalist Brian Keating headed south ...

Strychnine had long been the preferred pesticide for gopher control in Alberta — until the federal government began to phase out its use on Richardson's ground squirrels in 2020 and then banned it ...