[kevcol]

Who woulda guessed that Nevada had run out of vast empty deserts for these creatures to live?

$1million/yr govt funded facility:

[BenLurkin]

Soup’s on.

[patriot08]

Insane

[fwdude]

Sounds like the abortion argument.

“If we can’t keep them, they must be killed.”

[RetiredTexasVet]

That’s a lot of tortoise soup .... I guess Harry Reid can have a few of his fellow lawyers and crony capitalists over for supper.

[Uncle Chip]

Why euthanize them — start turning them loose — and then go find a real job.

[Norm Lenhart]

For those unaware (most) the BLM claims that there is a disease spread by contact with the DTs. I once made a ranger blow a gasket asking him who these turtle touchers that searched endlessly running from one RARE (right) tortoise to another touching them inappropriately and giving them turtle herpes.

He was not amused. I laughed a lot. Many of us off roaders did.

THAT is why this favility exists. No joke.

[gorush]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf22Bhn5lZU

[Red in Blue PA]

The facility was created in 1990 when the overdevelopment—namely McMansions, solar plants, and strip malls—of the turtles' native habitats caused the critters to be put on the endangered species list.

And so their answer is to kill them? WTF?

[DManA]

What a wonderful parable about the welfare state.

Trust us, we'll take care of you.

close its doors and euthanize about half of its 1,400 tortoise residents, reports the Associated Press.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

They are desert tortoises, right? They can survive in the desert, right? Oh wait - I guess they are now dependent on gov’t handouts and can’t survive on their own anymore. Wonder how many of them are registered rats and voted for Dingy Harry?.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Tortoises live in small, well-defined ranges. Remove them from that range and release them somewhere else and they will spend the rest of their lives trying to find their way back to their home range. Letting these poor critters go is probably a death sentence, too.

[Mastador1]

” mostly fueled by “raking in funds from fees imposed on real estate developers who chose to build on the tortoises’ habitats,”

So the solar farms are gone? Since these government approved rapists of the land, the solar and wind farms are still using the tortoises habitat let them pay for the facility. I find it incredible that the Eco Nazis go rabid over average Americans using the desert for recreation but it’s OK for “GREEN” businesses to rape the land and displace or destroy the wildlife.

[opentalk]

Related article

Government plans to euthanize hundreds of threatened desert tortoises it was supposed to protect

[IncPen]

Death Panels for Tortises

You're next, America.

[Blood of Tyrants]

So there is NOWHERE in the vast unpopulated west to turn them loose?

[SZonian]

Start killing the Ravens in the desert and the Desert Tortoise might stand a chance.

As it is now, the damnable Migratory Species Act protects the black bastards and they’re responsible for the wholesale slaughter of the tortoises in my neck of the woods.

Envirowhacko created conundrums...stupid.

[Lizavetta]

Have these fantabulous government workers even made an attempt to find them homes or contacted tortoise rescues?

Oh, wait .... that would require effort.

[yarddog]

Florida Gopher Tortoise.

[lonevoice]

The tortoises have been kept in captivity for so long they're too confused to be released into the wild

[DAC21]

Back in the day, desert Turtles were pets of sorts. We had one “Touche” at our So Cal. Home in the mid to late 60’s. These suckers slow as they were could dig there way to freedom in no time, as did ours.