WEYBURN – A bounty on gophers will be offered this year in a bid to address the over-population of the rodents from last year.
The RM will pay 50 cents a tail, said Reeve Norm McFadden, adding the hope there will be interest in residents to take part in controlling the gopher population this year.
“In the coming weeks is when we need to get people out catching gophers. We had a few people last year, but hopefully this year there will be more interest,” he said.
Gophers can cause a lot of damage to crop lands as well as in pastures, where their holes can prove to be a real hazard to livestock.
One of the RM’s biggest projects this year is building the new RM offices, which got underway a couple of weeks ago.
The new building will be located on First Avenue between Quality Tire and Knight Dodge, and will be bigger than their current offices, located on Fourth Street.
The current office was built about 40 years ago, and is very short on space, while the new building will have six offices and a meeting room that will be available for community non-profit groups to use.
