Click HERE for the latest news and announcements from the Gopher Tortoise Council, including:

• Letter from the Co-Chair
• GTC Announcements
• 2024 Annual Meeting Details
• Recent Research: 
  • Seasonal frugivory drives both diet inconsistency and individual specialization in the generalist herbivore gopher tortoise
  • Simulation modeling to assess line transect distance sampling under a range of translocation scenarios
  • Status of historical translocations of gopher tortoises outside of their geographic range in central Alabama
  • Inflated predictions from a flawed model influenced the decision to deny federal protection for the gopher tortoise
  • Common-garden experiment reveals outbreeding depression and region-of-origin effects on reproductive success in a frequently translocated tortoise
  • Gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) vertebrate burrow commensals within a private, working forest landscape
  • Status, distribution, and management of gopher tortoises in highly urbanized southeastern Florida