Las Vegas Review-Journal

Desert tortoise’s habitat built at Summerlin elementary school

The Howard Hughes Corp., developer of the award-winning master-planned community of Summerlin, recently built a community of a different kind. Working with two key contractors, Soil Tech and JC Co., ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal

Red Rock Canyon Tortoise Habitat growth continues with new arrivals

Red Rock has two new residents: Red Rock Roxie and a yet-to-be-named female tortoise. The nonprofit, Nevada-based Tortoise Group facilitated their adoption. Group member Sarah Mortimer brought them to ...
Los Angeles Times

Mojave desert tortoise officially joins California’s endangered list

The California Fish and Game Commission has formally recognized the Mojave desert tortoise as endangered. The designation, granted Thursday, is the latest in a long series of steps to try to protect ...
KSL

Biologists survey wildfire destruction on tortoise habitat north of St. George

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KSL

Fast-growing southern Utah county getting a new road through tortoise habitat

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The News Herald

Abandoned tortoise headed for habitat at Panama City Beach Conservation Park

PANAMA CITY — “Walt” the gopher tortoise has twice escaped from his makeshift pen in Dale Colby’s office only to be found in another room. “He had pushed out the table,” said Colby, Panama City ...
Fast Company

Utah wants to build a highway through a tortoise habitat

Utah’s political establishment has a thing for roads. Call it an obsession, maybe even a fetish, but state leaders go to great lengths to satisfy their internal-combustion-engine mania. In the past, ...
pv magazine International

Desert solar farms can improve tortoise habitat

With openings in the fence and improved growth of plants vital for tortoise survival, solar farms in Nevada can provide better habitat than the surrounding desert. First Solar has found similar ...
JSTOR Daily

Regression-Tree Modeling of Desert Tortoise Habitat in the Central Mojave Desert

This paper describes an interdisciplinary study of the habitat requirements of threatened desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) on eight 225-ha study plots in a 14 000 ha study area near the southern ...
Indiatimes

Turtle or tortoise: Know the differences in their shells, diet, habitat, and more

Turtles and tortoises, though related, exhibit key differences. Turtles are primarily aquatic with streamlined shells and webbed feet, suited for swimming and varied diets. Tortoises are land-based, ...
Washington Times

Biologists survey wildfire destruction on tortoise habitat

ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) - After the Turkey Farm Road Fire fried nearly 12,000 acres north of St. George, Utah, in mid-July, including large swaths of the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area that was ...