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Tortoise Conservation

• What does endangered mean?
• A Tortoise’s Tentative Future, National Parks Conservation Association

• Desert Tortoise Project:
  • East Colorado Recovery Unit
  • Western Mojave Unit
• Desert Tortoise Preservation Commitee: Home page
  • Desert Tortoise Recover Plan
• Conservation Information
  http://www.werc.usgs.gov/hq/synopsis.htm
  http://www.ca.blm.gov/caso/wf-destor.html
  http://www.nwf.org/keepthewildalive/tortoise/howyoucanhelp.cfm

• Synopsis of conservation information on the desert tortoise
• Ft. Irwin, National Training Center, Environmental Stewardship...Managing for Desert Tortoises
• Effectiveness of a barrier fence at reducing mortality and recovering desert tortoise populations.
• Herpetoculture and Conservation
• Desert Managers Group’s document page for various up-to-date documents on DT conservation and research
• DT Repatriation
• 0DRAFT Proposed Recovery Action Program for the Desert Tortoise in California
  September 17, 2003
  
• WEMO~ West Mohave Habitat Conservation Plan (BLM)
  • Species accounts in WEMO
    • Desert Tortoise
• News From the Zoos
  • http://www.sfzoo.org/cgi-bin/animals.py?ID=46
  • http://www.zooregon.org/Cards/Ed_Program/tortoise_desert.htm
  • http://www.chaffeezoo.org/animals/desertTortoise.html
• San Diego Zoo … Turtles, Tortoises… & Terrapins
• San Diego Zoo… Desert Tortoise Conservation Plan
  

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• Identification and Marking of Reptiles
• Identification and Marking of Reptiles
• “Speeding Tortoises”
• http://chainreaction.asu.edu/desert/digin/tortoise.htm
• http://researchmag.asu.edu/stories/speedtort.html
• http://aztec.asu.edu/phxzoo/old/tortbite.html
• Habitat analysis
  • USGS, Desert Tortoise Habitat Modeling (On-going Research)
  • Tortoise Underpasses
• DT Barrier fencing
  • http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/MojaveEco/SDMT/sd23.htm
• Raven Ecology
  • http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/MojaveEco/SDMT/sd24.html
  • http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/MojaveEco/SDMT/sd25.html
  • http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/MojaveEco/SDMT/sd22.html
• (DOD, USGS) Summary of major ongoing scientific activities in the California or Mojave Desert
• A Protocol for Salvaging Injured and Recently Dead, Ill, Dying Wild Tortoises, Free-Roaming Desert Tortoises (Gorpherus Agassizii)
  http://www.werc.usgs.gov/tortoise/salvaging_protocol.htm
• Guidelines For Handeling Desert Tortoises During Construction Projects
  http://ventura.fws.gov/SurveyProt/handle_tortoise.ht

• Desert Tortoise Council
  P.O. Box 2910
  San Bernardino, California 92406
  (818) 501-5219
• Desert Tortoise Preserve Committee
  P.O. Box 2910
  San Bernardino, California 92406
  (818) 501-5219
• Nevada Desert Tortoise HCP Study (?) 486-5127