Nevada Fish & Wildlife Office
Region 8, California and Nevada

Desert Tortoise Recovery Office

Recovery Plan Revision Timeline

Updated 6 September 2007

  • December 2006 - February 2007: DTRO works with Redlands Institute (RI) to compile current regional threat/management information.

  • January 18, 2007: MOG meeting to review strategy.

  • February 10-11, 2007: SAC reviewed draft recovery criteria and preliminary habitat models and spatial analyses.

  • March 07-08, 2007: California Recovery Planning Workgroup meeting at the University of Redlands to review threat and management data.

  • March 22-23, 2007: Arizona-Nevada-Utah Recovery Planning Workgroup meeting at USGS office in Henderson , NV , to review threat and management data.

  • March 2007: USGS and University of Nevada , Reno , complete habitat model and range-wide monitoring spatial analysis.

  • March 31 - April 1, 2007: SAC revises draft recovery criteria and recovery units.

  • May 09-10, 2007: Arizona-Nevada-Utah Recovery Planning Workgroup meeting in Las Vegas to develop regional recovery action plans, with support from RI.

  • May 22-23, 2007: California Recovery Planning Workgroup meeting at the University of Redlands to develop regional recovery action plans, with support from RI.

  • June - August 2007: DTRO compiles information into draft recovery plan. Regional recovery action plans modified, as necessary, to conform to draft recovery units.

  • September 14, 2007: MOG/SAC meeting in Las Vegas to discuss preliminary manager-review draft recovery plan. (Open to stakeholders.)

  • Late September 2007: DTRO revises recovery plan based on SAC and MOG input and distributes preliminary public-review draft.

  • November 6, 2007: Recovery planning open house at the Orton Center, University of Redlands.
  • November 8, 2007: Recovery planning open house in Las Vegas.

  • End of November 2007: Draft recovery plan submitted to California-Nevada Operations Office, FWS, for review.

    Last updated: July 19, 2008