Showing posts with label Fort Irwin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fort Irwin. Show all posts
August 5, 2013

A timeline of the desert tortoise’s slow and steady decline

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Fish and Wildlife and the San Diego Zoo experimentally translocated juvenile tortoises from the Desert Tortoise Conservation Center to th...
May 6, 2011

Solar threat

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Desert Tortoise Estimate Undercuts ESA Listing Opinion Riverside Press-Enterprise The discovery of far more desert tortoises than expecte...
November 7, 2010

Acres may be fenced off for protection of endangered plant

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By KAREN JONAS, staff writer Barstow Desert Dispatch NEAR FORT IRWIN • About 14,000 acres of land near Fort Irwin could be fenced off and...
December 22, 2009

Legislation would set pair of national monuments

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JOE NELSON San Bernardino Sun Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on Monday introduced legislation that would establish two new national mon...
December 21, 2009

Feinstein introduces proposed desert legislation in Senate

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By JESSICA CEJNAR Desert Dispatch WASHINGTON D.C. • U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation Monday that would establish a na...
October 2, 2009

Army won't move tortoises this fall

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By DAVID DANELSKI The Press-Enterprise U.S. Army officials have scrapped plans to move about 90 desert tortoises from Fort Irwin this m...
September 11, 2009

Army to move forward with tortoise relocation

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By DAVID DANELSKI The Press-Enterprise T he U.S. Army has told the U.S. Bureau of Land Management it plans to move 90 imperiled tortoi...
September 6, 2009

Burro traps go up in Fort Irwin area this week

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Burro trap. By DAVID DANELSKI The Press-Enterprise T he federal Bureau of Land Management this week will begin trapping wild burros a...
August 5, 2009

Army seeks to move more than 1,100 desert tortoises

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Desert tortoise. (Rachel Wilson) Julie Cart Los Angeles Times A s it prepares to expand training operations at Ft. Irwin in the Mojave Des...
July 30, 2009

Wild donkeys to be removed from area

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Burros will be relocated over 100 miles away By EUNICE LEE Desert Dispatch Greg Cook lassos a baby burro during a round-up in Panamint Valle...
June 5, 2009

Survey airplane to scan desert details

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Flights to collect seismic, groundwater data By EUNICE LEE, staff writer Desert Dispatch In 1992, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists ...
February 7, 2009

Public input sought on relocating desert tortoises for military training center project

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An analysis says coyotes caused most of the deaths of desert tortoises during a relocation effort. Frank Bellino / The Press-Enterprise By D...
January 22, 2009

Saving the tortoise

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Feds sure have spent a lot of money over the years EDITORIAL Las Vegas Review-Journal B ack in 1973, Congress enacted the Endangered Species...
January 20, 2009

Plenty spent on endangered species list's tortoise

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By MIKE STARK Associated Press The Mojave desert tortoise is among the top recipients of money spent by state and federal agencies trying to...
November 18, 2008

No one claims drone that crashed near El Mirage Dry Lake

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Jason Pesick, Staff Writer San Bernardino Sun O ne of the many flying contraptions that buzz above the desert crashed Monday morning near El...
October 11, 2008

Army suspends relocation of Ft. Irwin tortoises

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The $8.7-million effort has stopped because coyotes have killed so many in their new desert location By Louis Sahagun Los Angeles Times T he...
October 10, 2008

Fort Irwin suspends tortoise translocation

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By Abby Sewell Desert Dispatch FORT IRWIN • Fort Irwin will not be moving desert tortoises as planned this fall, partially in response to a...
October 9, 2008

Army suspends Fort Irwin tortoise relocation plans after deaths of 90 animals

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By DAVID DANELSKI The Press-Enterprise T he U.S. Army has suspended plans to relocate more than 1,000 desert tortoises from Fort Irwin expan...
September 16, 2008

Wildlife service believes Fort Irwin plant not endangered

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By Abby Sewell, staff writer Desert Dispatch FORT IRWIN — Fish and wildlife officials recommended downgrading the endangered status of a rar...
July 13, 2008

Lane Mountain milk-vetch center of controversy between environmentalists and military

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By JENNIFER BOWLES The Press-Enterprise The Lane Mountain milk-vetch lives on land where the Army wants to expand its tank-training grounds ...