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Desert reserve searches for cause of tortoise flu
Auburn :: AL :: USA | 12 days ago
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Utah » Symptoms are similar to what happens to sick humans. The Salt Lake Tribune Updated: 11/25/2009 07:02:22 PM MST Even desert tortoises get the flu. A growing number of the animals in the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve in St. George have contracted...
Tags: McLuckie, desert reserve, Auburn, Environment, Influenza, Desert Tortoise, Tortoises, Common cold
Mitzelfelt: Put solar project somewhere else
San Bernardino :: CA :: USA | 21 days ago
Credibility Oakland-based BrightSource Energy wants to build a solar power plant on a 4,000-acre site in the Ivanpah Valley, a few miles southwest of Primm, Nev. But that land, according to an environmental study released Nov. 4, is home to the endangered desert...
Tags: Andy Silva, Brad Mitzelfelt, Supervisor Mitzelfelt, tortoises habitat, putting solar, desert tortoises, San Bernardino, Ivanpah Valley, Desert Tortoise, Solar energy, Solar power, Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, Energy conversion, Alternative energy, BrightSource Energy, Environment
The Army: making a fast mover out of the Desert Tortoise
California's state reptile, the Desert Tortoise is losing more of its habitat in the Mojave Desert thanks to the United States Army. Their plans to move approximately 1100 tortoises to nearby locations they say is for the purpose of expanding...
Tags: desert tortoise, extinction, army, US army, san bernardino, mojave desert, tortoise, turtle, species, endangered species, endangered, extinct, population, desert, sonoran desert
Beloved desert tortoise returned to Cupertino home
Cupertino :: CA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Butch, the 150-year-old desert tortoise who apparently was taken from his Cupertino yard on Sept. 25, was returned home safely early Monday, healthy and raring to go — to sleep, that is. "He wasn't wrapped but having him back home is like an early Thanksgiving,...
Tags: Penny Carle, Cupertino, desert tortoise, Chuck Carle
Tortoise rescue success is unsure
Murray :: UT :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility It has been 18 years since the federal government decided to protect the shy, slow-moving Mojave desert tortoise. Despite that step, wildlife officials still don't know whether it has stopped the tortoise's decline in the scrubby desertlands of California,...
Tags: desert tortoise
Desert tortoise Mojave Max dies at Red Rock habitat
Las Vegas :: NV :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Desert tortoise Mojave Max examines a cactus in May in his habitat at the Red Rock Canyon Visitor Center. Photo by Gary Thompson Mojave Max, the desert tortoise whose emergence from his burrow was a closely watched harbinger of spring's arrival in Southern...
Tags: desert tortoise, natural causes
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