Augustine Grass Front Yard

There's a plus to gophers. They do a marvelous job of aerating the soil. The piles of loose dirt they leave behind are great for planting new grass.
Still, who needs holes and tunnels that collapse under your feet as you walk across the yard? That's why gophers don't belong on the manicured ranchette.
We are now four gophers down but probably have ten more to wipe out. Our little black box trap (Viktor) is doing its job. Yes, it's cruel. Yes it kills 'em dead. And--Yes, the holes are slowly disappearing. Sooner or later, all the gophers will go away. We hope.
Uphill, we're using the loose tunneled ground to plant more Augustine grass. Gophers seem not to like the stuff. Maybe it has a funny taste? Or maybe it has a too thick packed root system? Only once did a little hole open in our Augustine lawn, but it quickly disappeared. The gophers just didn't want to stay there. They prefer the dry hard as rock dirt area full of prickly dandelion type weeds.
The trap has now been duly moved to the horse area.

The smart weeds are up again. They are particularly virulent because we gave them water. The real problem, though is the gophers. Just yesterday they took down our avocado tree. It was already five feet tall with a three inch trunk and in full leaf. Like beavers, the animal underground managed to sever the tree at the root. Duh. Off we went to purchase a gopher trap, not the cheap wire ones. We got the heavy duty black box. Yes, it worked! One gopher down, and probably ten more to go. There are holes all over the yard.
Of course no photos of the deceased are available. The beast is in the trash can already.

Pocket Gophers