[CPEO-MEF] BIOTA: Desert tortoise research "unfinished"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Basis of plan to resume tortoise relocation at issue


By DAVID DANELSKI
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
August 10, 2009

Federal officials relied on unpublished, unfinished research in 
justifying their plans to resume moving hundreds of desert tortoises so 
the Army can expand military training grounds north of Barstow.

The research is not available to the public, raising consternation among 
environmental groups that have until Friday to submit comments on the 
proposed relocation. Several groups have requested that the government 
extend the abbreviated, 15-day comment period.

An official of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, which is overseeing 
the relocations, said the agency learned Friday that the research was 
unfinished. Contacted Monday, the researcher affirmed that the study is 
still being prepared and declined to release it.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_N_tortoise11.45bfdc3.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
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