Ground squirrels

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GROUND SQUIRRELS:

The term is most often used for the medium-sized ground squirrels, as the larger ones are more commonly known as marmots (genus Marmota) or prairie dogs, while the smaller and less bushy-tailed ground squirrels tend to be known as chipmunks.

Thanks Wikipedia :giggle:
 
   / Ground squirrels #14  
I don't know about California ground squirrels. Here, we have 13 lined ground squirrels. As kids, we'd take a couple quart canning jars full of water and chase the ground squirrel until it ran into it's hole. Then we'd dump one, then two jars of water down the hole and put the last jar over the hole. Give it a couple seconds and the ground squirrel pops up in the jar. You quickly tip the jar and put the lid on it. Worked surprisingly well. But, then you have a squirrel in a jar. Then you wondered why you did that. Then you felt kinda bad about that and let it go and went and found something else to do.
You little ignoramuses , shame on you.,,,,😟,wait a minute,we did something almost that stupid one day. 😇
 
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You must have ran around with some weird kids.,,,,😟,wait a minute,we did something almost that stupid one day. 😇
We did it with carpenter bees when the azaleas bloomed.
 
   / Ground squirrels #19  
Ground squirrels are a HUGE problem around here. Their mounds, hidden in tall alfalfa for instance, tear up a lot of equipment. Some of the big farms around here offer a bounty of $1 a tail and invite shooters to come out and shoot all they want. They even put ads in the paper, asking people to come out and shoot the darn things. I also see workers out using the propane injectors in the fields.

Every year, early spring, I mount my box scraper on my tractor and go out and level out those mounds as best I can to make mowing easier come June. (The squirrels come out right around Christmas, and then disappear - hibernate - around the 1st of July. It's not unusual for me to sit in my Jeep with my .22 and shoot 100 at a sitting, yet it doesn't seem to hurt the population at all.

Early spring photos of the mounds. I bet there's 100 holes per acre if not more.
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Some of the mounds can be huge - who'd think a tiny squirrel could move that much dirt?
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Ground squirrels are a HUGE problem around here. Their mounds, hidden in tall alfalfa for instance, tear up a lot of equipment. Some of the big farms around here offer a bounty of $1 a tail and invite shooters to come out and shoot all they want. They even put ads in the paper, asking people to come out and shoot the darn things. I also see workers out using the propane injectors in the fields.

Every year, early spring, I mount my box scraper on my tractor and go out and level out those mounds as best I can to make mowing easier come June. (The squirrels come out right around Christmas, and then disappear - hibernate - around the 1st of July. It's not unusual for me to sit in my Jeep with my .22 and shoot 100 at a sitting, yet it doesn't seem to hurt the population at all.
The critters may be the same but you're situation is a whole lot different than mine. I'm trying to keep them from tearing up a thousand feet of gravel driveway. How many acres are you looking at there?

I'm guessing that it's to rocky to disc or you don't want to reseed or both? If I were in your spot I think that I might try diesel exhaust. Hook up a hose to tractor exhaust and have someone drop the end into the burrows as you drive around, stop for a bit at each burrow. Also, if you have a source, dry ice works real well also. You can get it in pellets. Drop a hand full of them into each burrow.
 

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