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Fairgrounds declares war on ‘super breed’ gophers

'There’s times you look out there and it looks like the ground is moving'

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Jonathan Ellis
Aug 10, 2025
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a small animal is hiding in the dirt
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A subplot to the 1980 classic movie “Caddyshack” involves Bill Murray’s obsession with exterminating a gopher.

Murray plays a golf course greenskeeper who employs more and more extreme measures to rid the immaculate golf course of a nuisance gopher.

The W.H. Lyon Fairgrounds could use some Bill Murrays. It has an even bigger gopher problem.

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