By Shanna Hanbury After more than a decade studying California ground squirrels, Jennifer Smith felt she had a solid understanding of their behavior. Then, in the summer of 2024, her students spotted ...

California voles (Microtus californicus) are a burrowing rodent species that range from southern Oregon down to Baja California—sometimes living (dangerously?) in ground squirrel burrows. They are ...

University of Idaho Extension educators are surveying southern and eastern Idaho potato farmers to document the scope of their problems with mouse-like rodents known as voles. Extension educators ...