Army Rethinks Tortoise Relocation
Monday, October 13th, 2008 Posted in Endangered Species, desert wildlife | 2 Comments »While the U.S. Marine Corps has announced plans to expand its 29 Palms base, the Army's Ft. Irwin expansion efforts faced some difficulty when the Army announced on Friday that it would suspend its much-criticized desert tortoise relocation program. As biologists ...
How You Can Help the Desert Tortoise
Thursday, August 21st, 2008 Posted in Endangered Species, desert wildlife | 1 Comment »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 ...
Good News for Bighorn, Bad News for Tortoise
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 Posted in Endangered Species, desert wildlife | 2 Comments »There was good news for Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep last week, as the US Fish & Wildlife Service finalized critical habitat for this population of bighorn, cousins to the desert bighorn of the southwest. The new decision on critical habitat ...
Threatened Desert Tortoise
Friday, May 2nd, 2008 Posted in Endangered Species, Public Lands, desert wildlife | No Comments »Threatened Desert Tortoise Takes Another Hit In March in the Mojave Desert northeast of Barstow California, the US Army began removing close to 800 desert tortoises from habitat considered critical to their survival to an area south of the Ft. Irwin ...
