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luhrsreptiles
at Thu Sep 2 17:03:09 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by luhrsreptiles ]
It’s always interesting to watch well meaning people waste time and money trying to push a snowball across the desert in July.
This is an example of when a bunch of well meaning people and government agencies get together.
At Fort Irwin California the Army decided to expand the training center (about 63,000 acres) Everyone decided to “Save The Desert Tortoise” so they spent millions of dollars and a couple of years coming up with a PLAN.
The PLAN was to move 600 wild Desert Tortoise off the Base into occupied tortoise habitat. The occupied habitat already had about 600 tortoises in it. The story is too long to post here but to make it short. 300 of the new tortoises died and 300 of the already existing tortoises died. If they had just left them alone I’m sure the tanks would have killed a fair number but not all of them. The well meaning people wouldn’t listen to those of us who have spent just as many years in the field and sometimes more and so a lot of Desert Tortoises died for no reason.
I do Biological Consulting mostly in the Mojave Desert and sometimes I want to puke when I see what is happening to it.
Michael Luhrs
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RE: Indigo Snake Restoration Project... - luhrsreptiles, Thu Sep 2 17:03:09 2010