Showing posts with label U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Show all posts
Showing posts with label U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Show all posts
March 2, 2017

Federal officials OK desert tortoise transfer

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Marines wait for a desert tortoise - endangered and protected from harm or harassment by federal law - to move off the road during an oper...
July 10, 2016

Water for Wildlife restores 13 guzzlers in East Mojave Desert

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Water for Wildlife volunteers put the finishing touches on guzzler B226 near Flat Top Mountain in February 2016. The large concrete apron ...
March 31, 2016

Tortoise a road block for Marines

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Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center expansion area in Lucerne Valley. By DAVID DANELSKI Press-Enterprise An adult ...
March 16, 2016

Military's tortoise relocation plan in jeopardy

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The Marines were gearing up to move the reptiles to Bureau of Land Management habitat areas near Barstow to protect them from live-fire exer...
March 8, 2016

Tortoise relocations challenged

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Desert tortoises, such as this adult photographed near the Ivanpah Valley, are listed as threatened with extinction. The Marine Corps plans ...

Taxpayers to shell out $50M for Marines to evacuate 1,200 Mojave tortoises

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The tortoises are in the way of the Marines' planned expansion of a combat training grounds. (US Marine Corps) Foxnews.com T axpay...
October 22, 2014

Southern California Desert Management Plan Worries Activists

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A sweeping renewable energy management plan for Southern California's desert regions is stirring fears about potential new solar farms a...
October 10, 2014

Las Vegas ‘tortoise gulag’ paroles last inmates

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A desert tortoise crawls free after being released into the desert near Primm on Friday, Oct. 10, 2014. The Desert Tortoises Conservation ...
August 17, 2014

'Alarming' Rate Of Bird Deaths As New Solar Plants Scorch Animals In Mid-Air

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Solar panels stand at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in the Mojave Desert near Primm, Nevada, U.S., on Monday, March 10, 201...
August 15, 2014

Desert tortoise doing just fine

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EDITORIAL LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL T he desert tortoise is so threatened, in such a fight for species survival, that it desperately needs ...
August 12, 2014

Sterilization clinic set for endangered tortoise

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Mojave Max roams the Desert Tortoise Conservation Center in Las Vegas in 2009. A clinic later this month seeks to sterilize desert tortois...
July 14, 2014

Pet desert tortoises need homes

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There's no place to take unwanted desert tortoises, a reptile that is endangered in the wild. Yet desert tortoises can’t simply be put...
June 27, 2014

Group Will Sue to Block 'Evisceration' of Endangered Species Act

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A new policy would make it nearly impossible to add new species to the Endangered list until it might be too late for them. (Photo: Jane W...
June 4, 2014

Delist desert tortoise

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LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL EDITORIAL B eing a desert tortoise truther these days can’t be an easy job. For more than two decades, the she...
April 7, 2014

Glamis Dunes: Judge rejects lawsuit, opening new areas to off-roaders

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Additional areas of the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area, known as Glamis, will be opened to off-roaders this fall. (AP) By Janet Zim...
March 6, 2014

Enviro Group Sues to Block New Desert Solar Projects Over Threat to Tortoises

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Adult desert tortoise with four juveniles. (Lake Mead NRA/Flickr/Creative Commons License) by Chris Clarke KCET.org T he environmenta...
February 26, 2014

Feds Declare 2 Endangered Death Valley National Park Plants Recovered

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Eureka Valley evening primrose (USFWS/Flickr/Creative Commons License) by Chris Clarke KCET.org T wo plants found only in Death Vall...
January 5, 2014

Mohave County may join tortoise coalition

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A wild desert tortoise photographed during the summer of 2009 east of the Hualapai Mountains. (JC AMBERLYN/Miner) Kim Steele Kingman Da...
November 24, 2013

Clark County officials lament spending $15.7 million on desert tortoises

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A desert tortoise tries to escape from a container at the Desert Tortoise Conservation Center in Las Vegas in this 2012 file photo. Under ...
October 8, 2013

GOP rips public land shutdown

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By Ben Geman The Hill H unters and tourists are needlessly being kept away from public lands during the shutdown, Republicans claimed T...