Desert Tortoise Recovery Office Update; April 6, 2023

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Desert Tortoise Recovery Office updates on staffing & range-wide monitoring for Mojave desert tortoises

Presented by Kristina Drake, U.S. Fish and Wildlife

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Desert Tortoise
Southern Nevada Fish and Wildlife Office
The Southern Nevada Fish and Wildlife Office was established in 1995 primarily to work on recovery and regulatory issues related to the Mojave population of the threatened desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii), and to help with efforts to conserve native desert fishes in southern Nevada. In April...
Conservation Office
Las Vegas,NV
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Mojave Desert Tortoise facing out of burrow
The Desert Tortoise Recovery Office works to provide effective and coordinated recovery, research, and monitoring activities for the Mojave desert tortoise; provide a sound and defensible scientific basis for decision-making; assess the benefits of recovery actions; provide information and...
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Las Vegas,NV
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Desert Tortoise walking in the desert

The Mojave desert tortoise is a large, herbivorous (plant-eating) reptile that occurs in the Mojave Desert north and west of the Colorado River in southwestern Utah, southern Nevada, southeastern California, and northwestern Arizona in the United States. The desert tortoise is one of most...

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Animalia
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