Six years post-experiment, there were 40,000 plants thriving on the gopher plots. The untouched land remained mostly barren. All this was possible because of what isn’t always visible to the ...
“Who would have predicted you could toss a gopher in for a day and see a residual effect 40 years later?” In 1983, Allen and Utah State University’s James McMahon helicoptered to an area where the ...
"The gopher is the big star because they brought ... "Mycorrhizal fungi are plant supporters," Maltz says. "They grow with plant roots and support plants in getting established in inhospitable ...