[CPEO-MEF] BIOTA: Edwards Air Force Base (CA) and the desert tortoise

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Desert tortoises get 'head start' to survival


by Senior Airman Stacy Sanchez
95th Air Base Wing Public Affairs
Air Force News
May 14, 2008

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- As part of Edwards effort to increase 
the desert tortoise population, people from Environmental Management 
here established the Head Start Program.

The Head Start Program, started four years ago and located in the 
southern central portion of Edwards, is designed to bolster the 
population of younger age class tortoises to adult ages.

"The desert tortoise is officially listed as threatened under the 
federal endangered species act," said Mark Hagan, Environmental 
Management natural resource manager. "The decline in the population has 
been so drastic to the point of becoming endangered."

...

For the entire story, see
http://www.edwards.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123098659

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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