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Will Indian River County let RSG of Vero Beach build Ridge Top neighborhood atop 600 gopher tortoise burrows in Wabasso?

They instinctively know to dig just above the water table. "The burrow itself is an awesome work of engineering,” said Gerry-Ana Jones of the Indian River County Gopher Tortoise Alliance .

Florida gopher tortoises are a threatened species and 365 others depend on their burrows. Florida development boom is leaving little room for the native land tortoises.