Posted on 08/29/2013 1:10:59 PM PDT by george76
It’s been protected from meddlesome hikers by the threat of prison time. But the pampered desert dweller now faces a threat from the very people who have nurtured it as BLM closes Vegas rescue center.
LAS VEGAS — For decades, the vulnerable desert tortoise has led a sheltered existence. Developers have taken pains to keep the animal safe. It’s been protected from meddlesome hikers by the threat of prison time. And wildlife officials have set the species up on a sprawling conservation reserve outside Las Vegas.
But the pampered desert dweller now faces a threat from the very people who have nurtured it. Federal funds are running out at the Desert Tortoise Conservation Center and officials plan to close the site and euthanize hundreds of the tortoises they’ve been caring for since the animals were added to the endangered species list in 1990.
“It’s the lesser of two evils, but it’s still evil,” said U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service desert tortoise recovery coordinator Roy Averill-Murray during a visit to the soon-to-be-shuttered reserve at the southern edge of the Las Vegas Valley last week.
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If it’s not the desert tortoise, what is Reid’s corrupt BLM protecting?
The issue is never the issue: the real issue has nothing to do with bio - diversity ...
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“I tried to rescue some tortious eggs.”
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I never suspected that attorneys lay eggs.
That looks like the same thing I used to find every day when I was a kid and I danged sure didn’t live in a desert, there ain’t too many deserts in South Carolina.
No. But that would get in the way of the orders to euthanize them. In the Era of Hope and Change, orders are orders. And the BLM is, uh, just following orders. *shrug*
Are these the ones they ‘relocated’ for the big solar project they were whooping it up about?
desert tortoise recovery coordinator Roy Averill-? They created a job for that?
They had to destroy the tortoise in order to save it.
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