Gophers

The three basic Internet appHcations of remote login, electronic mad, and file transfer are also budding blocks of more sophisticated appHcations that offer increased functionaUty and ease of network use. Tools such as Gopher, Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS), and World Wide Web (WWW) go beyond the three basic Internet functions to make information on the network easier to locate and use. Detaded descriptions of these tools are avadable (10). This trend toward more powerful, user-friendly networked information resource access systems should continue as Internet grows and matures. 

Visit gopher //atlas.chem.Utah.edu/ll/MSDS. This site is run by the University of Utah. To search, you choose the alphabetical folder that contains the chemical of interest. You will be presented with a list of chemicals to select from. 

Visit gopher //quasar.tach.net 3020/71/msds. This is the Vermont state SIRI Web. You will find a searchable (manufacturer or product name) gopher index of MSDSs. 

Visit gopher //ecosys.drdr.Virginia.edu 70/00/library/gen/toxics. This site contains EPA Fact Sheets. For each chemical list on the site you will find general hazard information. 

Hanus L, Gopher A, Almog S, Mechoulam R. Two new unsaturated fatty acid ethanolamides in brain that bind to the cannabinoid receptor. J Med... 

Gopher snake, Pituophis catenifer, fed dead or moribund rodents poisoned with high concentrations of 1080 In 21 separate trials, 14 snakes regurgitated rodents and 7 had no significant effects within 5 days of ingestion 11... 

Brock, E.M. 1965. Toxicological feeding trials to evaluate the hazard of secondary poisoning to gopher snakes, Pituophis catenifer. Copeia 1965 244-245. 

Synonyms Boomer-rid Caswell No. 805 Certox Dolco mouse cereal EINECS 200-319-7 EPA pesticide chemical code 076901 Gopher bait Gopher gitter Hare-rid Kwik-kil Mole death Mole-nots Mouse-rid Mouse-tox NSC 5365 Pied piper mouse seed RCRA waste number P108 Rodex Sana-seed Strychnidin-lO-one Strychnos UN 1692. 

Numerous repellents have been used to keep moles from gardens. These include caster beans, gopher spurge, windmills, etc. Their common trait is that none of them produce consistent resnlts. The best way to eliminate moles is to trap them. Mole traps are difficult to use properly, but can be very effective. More detailed iirformation can be foimd in Extension factsheet SP293-A, Mole Control in Teimessee. ... 

Visual and olfactory stimuli contribute to anti-snake responses in mammals California ground squirrels, Spermophilus beecheyi, flag their tail and kick sand at a rattlesnake, C. viridis, more often than at a gopher snake, P. melanoleucus. The squirrels kicked sand at and approached a snake in a perforated transparent bag more frequently than one in an intact hag. Visual and chemical cues are important, but the latter seem to he the primary releasers (Henessy and Owings, 1979). 

A predator odor affected a pocket gopher, Thomomys talpoides, population in western Canada. First live-trapping removed the gophers from plots of 4ha area in an orchard. Then synthetic sulfur compounds from stoat, Mustek erminea anal glands (1 1 mixture of 2-propylthietane and 3-propyl-l,2-dithiolane) were... 

Sullivan, T. P., Crump, D. R., Wieser, H. and Dixon, E. A. (1990). Response of pocket gophers [Thomomys talpoides) to an operational application of synthetic semiochem-icals of stoat [Mustela erminea). Journal of ChemicalEcobgy 16,941-949. 

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