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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMarines airlift 1,100 desert tortoises
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/military/the-intel/sd-me-marines-tortoises-20170414-story.htmlMore than 1,000 desert tortoises are taking a trip with the Marine Corps this month.
The Marines are using helicopters to relocate the tortoises to another part of the Mojave in make way for an expansion of desert training grounds.
During the two-week long process, the hubcap-sized tortoises are being loaded into plastic containers, which are then stacked and strapped to a helicopter.
Their new home will be swaths of federal land to the north and southeast of the Twentynine Palms base, Marine officials said. The areas were deemed far enough away that the tortoises wouldnt migrate back to the original habitat.
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Marines airlift 1,100 desert tortoises (Original Post)
jpak
Apr 2017
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Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)1. Great news.
miyazaki
(2,249 posts)2. On a side note Tortoises are getting plowed by tourist driven cars
in Joshua Tree National Park, which is not far away. Been quite the bounty in the desert due to the rains. But the Joshua Trees have been dying off for decades now.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)3. McCain is using Marine One?
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)4. Awesome!
Greybnk48
(10,176 posts)5. Is it childish of me to think of Earnest Goes to Camp?
I can't quit laughing. "Death from above!"
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,364 posts)6. Good thing it was the Marines, and not WKRP (in Cincinnati)