Pocket Gopher News Today

It's a vicious-looking creature, but in the big scheme of things, it's really quite important to our ecosystem.

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Ecosystem. >> many property owners who have never actually seen a pocket gopher may disagree. in olympia, washington, dan springer, fox news. >> bret: california has some of the strictest gun laws in the country and they are about to get even more strict. gun rights advocates are trying to draw a line in the proverbial sand out there. correspondent william la jeunesse explains tonight. >> california is the capital of gun control come up lawmakers last year passing a sweeping set of restrictions....

Ecosystem. >> many property owners who have never actually seen a pocket gopher may disagree. in olympia, washington, dan springer, fox news. >> bret: california has some of the strictest gun laws in the country and they are about to get even more strict. gun rights advocates are trying to draw a line in the proverbial sand out there. correspondent william la jeunesse explains tonight. >> california is the capital of gun control come up lawmakers last year passing a sweeping set of restrictions....

Following the sequester cuts. >> there are civilians back here day in, day out sent the servicemembers off to combat, taken care of families while theyre deployed and reintegrating into installations. to ask them to sacrifice again is personally very painful for me to do that. >> and tough for these employees. that amounts to 20% pay cut for 11 weeks, bill. bill: i heard that harley. the defense department is not acting broke, dan. still buying land around that base, is it not? >> well, thats th...

Over the last 10 years, the defense department has spent nearly $400 million helping critters. the latest is the pocket gopher. take a look. this is what it looks like. its not even listed federally as being threatened. biologists couldnt tell us how many are left or how they differ from gopher species around the one country that are thriving. the dod is buying land around the base because its gopher habitat. some of the furloughed humans arent happy about it. >> that really makes me mad that th...