Editing Sidehill gouger (section)

==In popular culture==
* "Deadhead Mile" (2016) by K.N. Johnson (included in the anthology ''A Journey of Words'') suggest gougers to be the culprits behind ski trails with dead ends.<ref name="PaoneHayes2016">{{cite book|last1=Johnson |first1=K. N. |title=A Journey of Words |chapter=Deadhead Mile |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r9BVDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT186 |date=1 September 2016 |publisher=BookBaby |isbn=978-0-9979485-9-2 |pages=186–197}}</ref>
* ''Sidehill Gouger'' (2009) by Canned Games is a puzzle game on [[Xbox Live]] for [[Xbox 360]], featuring a young boy hunting the sidehill gougers of his grandfather's stories.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cannedgames.com/gouger.html |author=Staff writer |year=2009 |title=Sidehill Gouger |website=Canned Games |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708114349/http://www.cannedgames.com/gouger.html |archive-date=8 July 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* Storyteller [[John Dashney]] featured the sidehill gouger (referred to as the "sidehill wowser") in a story supposedly about his grandfather, who specialized in hunting the creatures to the point of stretching his hounds' legs to help them chase the creatures better along hillsides. The story details an encounter in which his grandfather stumbled across two gougers at a time, resulting in a harrowing spiral chase up a hill until the opposite-oriented creatures crashed into one another, solving his problem.{{cn|date=April 2023}}