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General Category => Military/Defense News => Topic started by: rangerrebew on April 14, 2017, 09:18:56 pm
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Marines Relocate Desert Tortoises
By Marine Corps Cpl. Medina Ayala-Lo Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms
MARINE CORPS AIR GROUND COMBAT CENTER TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif., April 14, 2017 — The southern Mojave Desert is known by most as a serene landscape, freckled with lizards, coyotes, jack rabbits as well as a cornucopia of other wildlife and desert vegetation.
But starting April 8, 2017, the landscape was temporarily adorned with trucks, biologists and a helicopter all in support of one being: the desert tortoise.
The translocation, in accordance with a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service-signed biological opinion, serves as a negotiated mitigation to support the mandated land expansion, which will enable the installation to conduct large-scale exercise training with up to a Marine Expeditionary Brigade-sized force.
https://www.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/1152478/marines-relocate-desert-tortoises/
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Barstow to Needles in some pretty desolate territory. My guess is that this season, will be blooming with color, from record rainfall.
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Needles,+CA/Barstow,+CA/@34.8925618,-116.7839078,8z/data=!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x80ce2372e1358a33:0x205fa817e10d94f3!2m2!1d-114.6141315!2d34.8480597!1m5!1m1!1s0x80c470434c549455:0x1b412c332aefe277!2m2!1d-117.0172826!2d34.8957957
(http://www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/cct-wildflower-0212-21.jpg?w=780)
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Imagine a fleet of drones flying over picking up tortoises with claws and bringing them to a safer location.