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The Desert Tortoise Preserve Committee protects roughly 2,000 hectares (5,000 acres) of desert tortoise habitat from human activity. This area includes 1,760 hectares (4,340 acres) in Kern County , 290 hectares (710 acres) in San Bernardino County , and 32 hectares (80 acres) in Riverside County .
A 3.5-million-acre swath of Mojave Desert, between Ridgecrest and the Morongo Basin, has been named a sentinel landscape, a federally led effort to promote sustainable land-use near military ...
Edwards et al. sampled 233 tortoises that represented Sonoran and Sinaloan lineages of G. morafkai. [6] The authors then conducted a large-scale genetic analysis that when combined with significant ecological and morphological differentiation, suggested that the southernmost Gopherus "Sinaloan" population constituted a newly described species ...
About 40 desert tortoise hatchlings are at The Living Desert as part of a conservation effort. After months of care, they'll return to the wild.
A federal judge ruled the Bureau of Land Management's off-road plan didn't show how it minimized impacts to the desert tortoise, a move environmentalists hope will lead to safeguards for the ...
The Desert Tortoise Research Natural Area (DTRNA) is a 39.5-square-mile (102 km 2) area in the western Mojave Desert, located in eastern Kern County, Southern California. It was created to protect the native desert tortoise ( Gopherus agassizii ) , which is also the California state reptile .
How long does it take a large desert tortoise to get to the other side of a southern Arizona highway? It’s still a mystery, after a state Department of Public Safety trooper recently helped ...
Turtle racing is a traditional activity in rural America, typically held as part of a county fair, ... 108 Desert tortoises - a protected species in California, ...