{"id":50782,"date":"2021-10-04T16:25:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T20:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=50782"},"modified":"2021-10-04T16:25:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T20:25:07","slug":"fgcu-students-create-gopher-tortoise-habitat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/10\/fgcu-students-create-gopher-tortoise-habitat\/","title":{"rendered":"FGCU students create gopher tortoise habitat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>FGCU students are among those pitching in to create a gopher tortoise habitat in North Fort Myers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"286\" height=\"176\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/gopher-tortoise.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50783\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The students and members of the Florida Native Plant Society (FNPS) teamed up with the Lee County Department of Natural Resources to help the species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The students and FNPS have been saving native scrub plants from areas that are being cleared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They were looking for places to transplant them when they found out Lee County was looking for native scrub plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plants are going in an area along the Caloosahatchee where the fill was dumped decades ago as the Edison Bridge was built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The county says the plants will create a more natural habitat for gopher tortoises which are a threatened species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FGCU students are among those pitching in to create a gopher tortoise habitat in North Fort Myers. The students and members of the Florida Native Plant Society (FNPS) teamed up&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":50783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[749],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50784,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50782\/revisions\/50784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}