Despite the potential to drive the tortoise closer to extinction, in 2001 Congress authorized Fort Irwin to expand into some of the best desert tortoise habitat remaining in the western Mojave desert.

Despite the potential to drive the tortoise closer to extinction, in 2001 Congress authorized Fort Irwin to expand into some of the best desert tortoise habitat remaining in the western Mojave desert.

Desert tortoises spend much of their lives underground ... said that after the Army decided to expand operations at Fort Irwin, "we were stuck with bad options: move the tortoises or leave ...

National Training Center Fort Irwin, Edwards Air Force Base, Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake and Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow. It’s also the heart of desert tortoise habitat in ...

FORT IRWIN — Scientists have begun moving the Mojave Desert’s flagship species, the desert tortoise, to make room for tank training at the Army’s Fort Irwin despite protests by some ...

the desert tortoise, to make room for tank training at the Army's Fort Irwin despite protests by some conservationists. The controversial project, billed as the largest desert tortoise move in ...

FORT IRWIN, California (AP ... They also affect the habitat of the threatened desert tortoise. The BLM plans to remove the donkeys beginning in late August. There have been two previous ...

"They said the (desert) tortoise was threatened ... The solution? Move the Fort Irwin tortoises not onto parched habitat from which they will only start their long, lumbering walk home, but ...

The desert tortoise has been listed as a threatened ... in 2008 that looked into the relocation of 2,000 tortoises from Fort Irwin in Southern California, where hundreds of square kilometers ...

Click here for C.R. Stecyk III's related slide show. The 20-year battle between the tanks of Fort Irwin and the desert tortoises of the Mojave Desert has taken another dramatic twist. Last week ...

Desert tortoises were once so plentiful that people ... The concept was pioneered in the 1990s at Fort Irwin, followed by a similar program at Edwards Air Force Base near Mojave.

Emily Green’s Aug. 5 article “Mojave Squeeze,” states that, in 2008, “California’s habitat conservation plans (were) superseded by a new ‘Desert ... expansion of Fort Irwin addressed ...