Monday, April 9, 2007

Toll agency to rethink treatment of gopher tortoises

The Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority decided Friday to delay some construction of a major road south of Apopka where hundreds of gopher tortoises already may have been entombed or crushed by heavy equipment - April 7, Orlando Sentinel

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