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The article focuses on the efforts by the Poarch Band of Creek Indians in rural Alabama to protect the endangered gopher tortoises in their land with the help of surrounding communities.

The article reports on the gopher tortoise management plan established by Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The plan is carried out after the gopher tortoise was reclassified as threatened by FWC. It intends to restore and maintain secure, viable populations of gopher tortoises throughout the species' current range in the state.

The article focuses on the author's visit to the Old Collier Golf Club in Naples, Florida. He learned the tortoise handling etiquette. Some basic rules to follow when picking up a gopher tortoise to demonstrate to a group of school kids on tour are to keep its head up, its tail down and arms fully extended away from the body.

The article offers two news briefs related to environmental issues in Georgia. The Georgia Department of Natural Resources has acquired a 884 acres of land in Taylor County for $1.37 million from AmSouth Timber Fund LLC to protect gopher tortoise. The Atlanta Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) will contribute its one-cent sales tax to the Peachtree Streetcar effort and continue with projects such as the C-loop, a separate streetcar from Lindbergh to Emory, Georgia.

Addresses the role of golf courses in the conservation and protection of gopher tortoise. Description of the gopher tortoise; Factors that contribute to the declining population of gopher tortoise; Information on the habitat of the gopher tortoise.

Focuses on the efforts of environmentalist Terry Redman to preserve an island at Caspersen Beach in Sarasota County, Florida as a habitat for the Florida scrub jay and gopher tortoise. Information on a grant awarded to Redman and the Venice Area Beautification Inc. by the National Wildlife Federation (NWF); Overview of the environmental activities of Redman; Comment from NWF Wildlife Conservation Program manager John Kostyack on the efforts of Redman.

The article reports how ENSR International helped El Paso Corp. meet government regulations related to endangered species, particularly the gopher tortoise. The Destin pipeline is presented highlighting its route that has four of the five countries within the tortoise's range. The situation is described involving the powerline right-of-way (ROW). The plan to capture gopher tortoises and relocate them is described together with the findings of the postconstruction survey.

Reports on the decline in the number of gopher tortoise, a reptile native to the southeastern U.S. Loss of habitat; Evaluation of the military impacts on the gopher tortoise; Effects of the prevalence of upper respiratory diseases on the tortoise.

The article offers information on the habitat of gopher tortoise, an animal which creates burrow as their home and the place wherein they lay their eggs, playing a vital role to maintain the structure of the ecological community.

Presents information on some animals and creatures roaming the earth. Fairy wrens; Tube worm or Riftia pachyptila; Gopher tortoises.

Provides information about gopher tortoise as the oldest, living turtles in North America. How the gophers move; Their habitats; Physical characteristics; Why gophers are also called `landhogs.'

Reports on the dwindling population of gopher tortoises in Florida. Diversity of wildlife populations encouraged by the animal's burrows; Factors destroying the tortoise's habitats.

Advances the cause for protecting gopher tortoises. Reasons for the depletion of tortoise colonies; Exhortation on coordinating with authorities in southeastern states on the matter of preserving the tortoise.

The article focuses on the relocation of colonies of threatened gopher tortoises which dug in on the future Turkey Trot Landfill site in Washington County, Alabama by Jacksonville, Florida-based Advanced Disposal.