Gopher Pest Control
Gopher Pest Control isn't one service. It's a category, and every yard needs a different piece of it. Here's how the work actually breaks down on our trucks. Gopher Stop covers the whole Inland Empire and the whole Temecula Valley with dedicated crews in each region, so a trap gets pulled in Corona in the morning while a fresh mound gets read in Murrieta that same afternoon. Same license. Same standard. Same 60 day service warranty on the yard when the job is done, with upfront pricing that starts at $295. The five services below are the five ways we get called out. Pick the one that matches where you're at, or call and we'll tell you honestly which one you actually need.
Gopher Control
Gopher Control is the program, not the emergency. It's the plan that keeps a yard clear once we've dealt with the ones that are already in it. Here's the thing about gopher activity across our two regions. Clay-heavy soil in Jurupa Valley and Eastvale holds moisture and holds tunnels for years. Decomposed granite around Highland and Redlands lets gophers push new runs almost overnight. The DG shelf under a lot of Temecula and Murrieta yards is the same story. One dispersing juvenile from the greenbelt behind the tract, and a fresh tunnel system is halfway across the lawn by the weekend. Real Gopher Control is inspection, targeted work in the active runs, and a return schedule that matches how fast new gophers move back in. That's the service to book when you're tired of playing catch-up.
Gopher Exterminator
Sometimes you don't need a program. You need someone out there this week because the front lawn is already mounded up and the drip line is starting to get chewed. That's the exterminator call. A licensed technician reads the tunnel system by hand, finds the main run underneath the surface pushes, and sets kill traps directly in the active tube. Homeowners usually miss on the run. They set on the wrong side of the plug, or in a lateral that the gopher has already sealed off, and nothing gets caught. We read the fresh mound, follow it back to the main, and put the trap where the animal actually travels. Our technicians cover Riverside and Corona in the morning and Menifee or Winchester the same afternoon.
Gopher Killer
Let's use the word people are actually searching. Gopher Killer means lethal traps set by hand in a live tunnel. It's not sonic stakes. It's not smoke bombs. And it's not the strychnine bait California pulled off the shelf. Poison in this state is a hard no for a reason. A gopher that eats bait and dies in a shallow tunnel becomes an easy meal for a red tailed hawk over Norco or a great horned owl in the wine country oaks. The bird pays for that meal. So does the coyote, the neighbor's dog, and the barn cat. Gopher Stop is licensed under California DPR 45065 and every residential job runs poison free. The kill happens underground, in the trap, on the target animal only. That's the honest version of the service.
Gopher Removal
Removal means the whole property, not just the gopher you saw first. If mounds are spread out or activity keeps showing up in different spots, there's likely more than one animal involved. We don't call the job done until the entire yard checks out clean.
Gopher Trapping
Trapping is the backbone. Everything else on this page runs on top of it. The trap is a professional grade, below ground kill trap set in the active run, and it works because it's placed with intent. Here's the part homeowners don't hear enough. Gophers plug their tunnels behind them, so a trap dropped into an old lateral catches air. The tech opens the run at the right point, reads which direction the animal is currently pushing, and sets so the gopher walks straight into it on the next patrol of the tube. Then we come back on schedule to check and reset until the run goes quiet for real. Same method in a Sommer's Bend backyard, a vineyard row off De Portola, or a half acre in Redlands. Different dirt, same fundamentals.
Commercial Gopher Control
We handle commercial properties the same way we handle a backyard, thorough, poison-free, and done right the first time. That covers HOA common areas, golf courses, agricultural and equestrian properties, and any larger site dealing with an active gopher problem.
Here's what that looks like in practice:
- A full inspection of the property and everywhere gophers have been active
- A free walk-through with a clear, recommended plan before anything gets scheduled
- A fast, complete clean-out of the initial infestation
- Commercial jobs start with a full clean-out, followed by ongoing maintenance when needed, rather than the 60-day residential service warranty
- Insurance documentation and invoicing handled simply, so it's not one more thing on your plate
