A rescued gopher tortoise arrived at the Nokuse Nature Preserve in Florida’s Panhandle while my sister Erica and I were there. It didn’t know how lucky it was. Across Florida, builders are required to ...

Listen to a Narrated Version of This Story in the ICYMI Series for the Line Life Podcast Wes Graham holds up his hand like a sergeant halting his squad. “See him? There he is,” he said. The ...

Burrow associates of the gopher tortoise : proceedings of the 8th annual meeting of the Gopher Tortoise Council, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, 13-15 November 1987 / C. Kenneth Dodd ... [et al.], ...

CAMP SHELBY, Miss. (WDAM) - After spending their first two years of life at Camp Shelby’s Nature Conservancy, 20 gopher tortoises stepped into the wild for the first time Thursday. “They are federally ...

Gopher tortoise habitat management, strategies and options : proceedings of the 6th annual meeting of the Gopher Tortoise Council, Solon Dixon Forestry Center of Auburn University, Dixie, Alabama, ...

Boasting more than 80 distinct ecosystems, Florida is a biodiversity hot spot. In fact, more than 4,000 animal species are native to the Sunshine State. In the heat of summer, a growing number of ...