Northeast Florida gopher tortoise count underway
Heads down with their eyes scanning the ground, the three were census-takers of a sort. Instead of knocking on doors and asking personal questions, they ran a scope with a video camera attached to the end of a snake-like 15-foot cable down a hole in hope of glimpsing the resident gopher tortoise home at the Branan Field Wildlife and Environmental Area near the Duval-Clay County line. The day got off to a successful start as Dziadzio, Kalfin and Seckinger — members of a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission research team — located five gopher tortoises inside six burrows 20 minutes into their search of the 386-acre state preserve. Based on size, those tortoises ranged from young adults about 9 years old to older adults, said Dziadzio, gopher tortoise mapping and monitoring coordinator. Click the link to read more…
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