[CPEO-MEF] BIOTA: Ft. Irwin (CA) tortoise relocation

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army to move forward with tortoise relocation

By DAVID DANELSKI
Riverside Press-Enterprise
September 11, 2009

The U.S. Army has told the U.S. Bureau of Land Management it plans to 
move 90 imperiled tortoises from Fort Irwin next month, despite the 
bureau's position that it will not participate in the effort because of 
uncertainty over how many of the reptiles will survive.

John Wagstaffe, a Fort Irwin spokesman, said the Army will relocate the 
desert tortoises after it gets an OK from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 
Service.

The Army wants the tortoises cleared from 24,000 acres to make way for 
expanded training with tanks and other military vehicles.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/sbcounty/stories/PE_News_Local_S_tortoises12.4670d4a.html

For the related editorial, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/opinion/editorials/stories/PE_OpEd_Opinion_S_op_16_ed_tortoise1.38b3a23.html
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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