ACKNOWLDEGEMENTS
We would like to thank the University of South Alabama Biology
Department, Alabama Audubon and the Gopher Tortoise Council for their
financial support on this project. We would also like to thank the
Nature Conservancy for access to the Splinter Hill Bog Nature Preserve
and Wayne Barger at the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural
Resources for his assistance with plant species identification. Finally,
we owe many thanks to the following field technicians: Catie Adams,
Andrew Allen, Cole Baggett, Caroline Barnes, Madeleine Boudreaux, Macey
Broome, David Dean, Skyler Kerr, Blake Meador, Eric Melby, Cade Smelley,
Paige Walston and Rebecca Well.