Showing posts with label desert tortoise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label desert tortoise. Show all posts
May 5, 2017

Animal Predatory Behavior Decreases Near Desert Wind Turbines, Study Finds

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"These findings could be helpful in assisting managers to design future wind energy facilities with species in mind." Wind turbine...
April 24, 2014

Guarding against overreach of the Endangered Species Act

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Sue McCrum Drovers Cattle Network R ecently there have been media reports that have highlighted the dangerous overreach of the Endangered...
April 9, 2014

Before Nevada Cattle Rancher Standoff, BLM Killed Hundreds of Endangered Desert Tortoises

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Endangered tortoise used as justification to assault Nevada rancher’s property rights 700-to-840 endangered tortoises face BLM euthanization...
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...
September 11, 2013

County gives up Mojave Preserve roads

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San Bernardino County no longer will handle their upkeep, which will now be the domain of the National Parks Service The National Park Servi...
July 2, 2013

Enviro Group Claims Ivanpah Solar Power comes at Nature’s Expense

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CBSLA.com MOJAVE DESERT — A national parks advocacy group claims that a massive solar power plant being constructed in the Mojave Desert,...
July 20, 2012

$20 million tortoise habitat deal in the works

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An aerial view of the construction of the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, which is scheduled to be completed in 2013. The project’...
June 22, 2011

Water From A Stone?

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Cadiz Valley. Southern California's newest source of water? (Photo by Chris Clarke) Commentary by Chris Clarke KCET As Southern Cali...
January 15, 2011

Unfettered vistas restored in remote valley

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This is one of the massive pits left behind after years of gold mining at the Hart mining area. Those pits will remain amid other reclamatio...