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A short trail along the gopher tortoise preserve at the Gordon River Greenway.


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Family Friendly Staff routinely takes school groups on this trail to look for gopher tortoises and learn about them.

Visitor hours: 6:00 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Description

This is a mulched .4 mile trail through scrubby flatwoods that traverses the gopher tortoise preserve area of the Gordon River Greenway.

Flora & Fauna

The habitat in this area of the Gordon River Greenway is scrubby flatwoods. Large slash pines and ancient sand live oaks are the predominant canopy species, with saw palmetto, sumac, rusty lyonia , grasses and forbs making up the remainder. This is the gopher tortoise preserve for the project.

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Alexandra Sulecki

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School children have a field day looking for and learning about gopher tortoises!
Jan 25, 2017 near Naples, FL

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