The best way to celebrate Gopher Tortoise Day is to ensure there are more gopher tortoises across their natural range in the southeast United States. Founded in 2013, the Forestland Stewards ...

Joey Manna travels to a Gainesville-area state park to photograph Florida’s gopher tortoise and meets Katherine Saylor of ...

Yuliang Huang sees something in maps others miss: he sees stories and relationships and a way to answer questions. His passion ignited a project that earned the 17-year old Edgewood Jr./Sr. High ...

Foresters take their responsibility to guard protected species seriously. When it comes to the gopher tortoise, a keystone species whose burrow provides shelter to more than 300 other types of forest ...

Gopher tortoises — burrowers whose extensive homes shelter many other animals — are generally doing well and need federal protection only in the small area where they were declared threatened 35 years ...

Developers were quietly given another 60 days to skirt gopher tortoise protection rules as the state struggles to find viable land to relocate the beleaguered reptile amid a building boom.

The devastating Hurricane Helene arrived at Florida’s Big Bend region in late September 2024. Unfortunately, the category four storm brought much damage through massive flooding, intense tornadoes, ...