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How You Can Help the Desert Tortoise

August 21st, 2008 Posted by Larry Hogue in Endangered Species, desert wildlife

Following up on last week’s post, here are a few things you can do to help the desert tortoise:

  • Comment on the US Fish & Wildlife Service’s revised recovery plan (large PDF!) for California’s state reptile. The plan has been criticized by the Center for Biological Diversity, and we’ll have more info for you soon on the details of the plan.
  • If you’d like to do something more concrete for the tortoise, a work party is being conducted October 18 & 19 by the Desert Tortoise Preserve Committee to restore habitat for the tortoise at the Desert Tortoise Natural Area. The preserve is located northeast of Mojave and southwest of Ridgecrest. More information here.
  • For science geeks only: feed your head with these abstracts from the Desert Tortoise Council’s 2008 Desert Tortoise Symposium. Or, for more basic info, check Defenders of Wildlife’s fact sheet on the tortoise.

  1. One Response to “How You Can Help the Desert Tortoise”

  2. By Larry Hogue on Aug 22, 2008

    There’s a good article in the LA Weekly about the controversial Desert Tortoise relocation program at Ft. Irwin: http://tinyurl.com/5jlrjj

    Thanks to Chris Clark for the tip!

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