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Hunt for bear scat, scamper through a gopher tortoise burrow and score some native plants ... “It reinforces everything they’ve read in a book in real life as it applies to them in Florida,” Natalie ...

A proposal leaked to the public in August outlined the construction of a golf course in Jonathan Dickinson State Park in Martin County — a vital gopher tortoise habitat. The plan has since been ...

The land hosts a gopher tortoise and is located within an active Florida Scrub-jay habitat. The conservancy has preserved 46 other parcels totaling almost 15 acres and relies entirely on donations ...

Approximately 60 acres will be reserved for a gopher tortoise habitat. Tony, a resident of Mary Lu Park, shared his concerns about the project. "I didn't see the design of it where there's going ...

Alligator pilau, gopher tortoise stew, swamp cabbage, and coquina broth? St. Augustine's culinary traditions blend a whole host of unusual local ingredients. We've uncovered a collection of old ...

Early on, they enjoyed specialties like pilau (pronounced per-low), a versatile dish of rice and meat, and gopher tortoise stew, a Minorcan staple until the mid-1970s when Florida lawmakers ...

Thomas, the 200-pound tortoise, recently visited the Rotary Club of St. Francisville and Bains Lower Elementary School, ...

It's also a spot for birders to enjoy, Conservation Florida officials said. "For the gopher tortoise on the floor, for the bald eagle soaring overhead and also for the deer hopping around ...

In Florida, they eat alligator eggs and threatened gopher tortoise hatchlings, harming native wildlife and competing with them for food, authorities said. They can grow up to nearly 5 feet in ...