On the Hannity radio show someone said that Reid and his BLM buddy had arranged to have the area rearranged for the tortoise protection as a favor to someone, and that now there are so many tortoises they are euthanizing them.
According to Mark Levin, BLM killed about 1,000 of those turtles, because they were overrunning the area, which makes the Fed pretext and argument to remove Bundy's cattle legally absurd.