Fish River Tree Farms owner Steve Mannhard said now they have five large burrows, a lot of medium-sized burrows and a ton of little baby tortoise ... University of South Alabama biology professor ...

Fittingly, gopher tortoises in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama (west of the Mobile and Tombigbee rivers) are protected as threatened under the Endangered Species Act — but those in eastern Alabama, ...

In 2022 the Service denied federal Endangered Species Act protections to the eastern population of gopher tortoises in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and most of Alabama. In 2023 the Center and ...