Two months ago, while netting a mostly drained pond, American Museum of Natural History’s Southwestern Research Station (SWRS) volunteer Alina Downer felt something large bump…
Chances are that you have probably seen a turtle trying to cross the road. But roads are dangerous places! Adult female turtles…
It’s a killer 95 degrees on the sand prairie today, so I was ecstatic when this western #hognose snake accepted several big gulps of water…
This is a guest post by Dr. Diogo Veríssimo at the University of Oxford, describing a project recently supported in part by The Alongside Wildlife Foundation.…
Flattened Musk Turtle Take a minute and think of something unique to Alabama, something you can’t find anywhere else. What is it? Perhaps it’s tailgating…
As a graduate student at Florida Atlantic University, I study the insects that live within gopher tortoise burrows. One method I use to collect…
A property owner reached out a couple weeks ago to find someone to help him with a problem. He is building on an old…
Photo courtesy of Becky Hardman By Sean Graham Amateur naturalists and professional scientists alike enjoy being in nature and often go looking for…
Catch up with Part I and II. A standard methodology for assessing Gopher Tortoise abundance across landscapes is to perform “line-transect distance sampling”…
Catch up by reading Part I here. As most field biologists can attest, spending extended time far removed from the hustle and bustle…