Nevada Fish & Wildlife Office
Pacific Southwest Region

Desert Tortoise Recovery Office

 

Monitoring
 
  		• 2012 Desert Tortoise Monitoring Handbook
        Introduction 23Mar2012
        Chapter 1 Distance Sampling and Desert Tortoises 11Feb2010
        Chapter 2 Desert Tortoise Handling 21Feb2012
        Chapter 3 Compass and Navigational GPS 21Feb12
        Chapter 4 Electronic Equipment 22Feb2012
        Chapter 5 Line Distance Protocols 22Feb12
        Chapter 6 Radio Telemetry and G0 Protocols 1Mar2011
        Chapter 7 Data Collection and Verification 25Feb2012 (.7 MB PDF)
        Appendix 1 Annotated Datasheets 23Feb2012
         
     
  		• Range-wide Monitoring of the Mojave Population of the Desert Tortoise: 2010 Annual Report (1.6 MB PDF)
     
  		• Range-wide Monitoring of the Mojave Population of the Desert Tortoise: 2008 and 2009 Reporting (2.4 MB PDF)
     
  		• Range-wide Monitoring of the Mojave Population of the Desert Tortoise: 2007 Annual Report (2.8 MB PDF)
     
  		• Range-wide Monitoring of the Mojave Population of the Desert Tortoise: 2001-2005 Summary Report (USFWS - 2006) (4.78 MB PDF)
           
     

    Recovery Planning
     
  		• 2011 Revised Rocovery Plan for the Mojave Population of the Desert Tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) (5.7 MB PDF)
     
  		• 2004 Recovery Plan Assessment (8.4 MB PDF)
     
  		• 1994 Recovery Plan
           
     

    Misc. Reports and Documents
     
  		• Threats to Desert Tortoise Populations: A Critical Review of the Literature (USGS - 2002)
     
  		• 2002 GAO Report on the Desert Tortoise Recovery Program (.5 MB PDF)
         

     

    Announcements   Authorized Desert Tortoise Biologist Form
    Desert Tortoise Habitat & Life History   Desert Tortoise Recovery Plan
    DesertTortoise.gov (external link)   DTRO Staff
    How You Can Help The Desert Tortoise   Land Management For Desert Tortoise
    Meeting Summaries   Monitoring, Recovery Planning, and
    Misc. Reports and Documents
    Science Advisory Committee
    Threats to the Desert Tortoise   2011 Health Assessments for Translocation

     

     
    Last updated: May 22, 2012