Posts tagged “DESERT TORTOISE”
  • More Tortoise Math for Joe Biden
    By Chris Clarke on 2011 06 14 at 9:14:45 pm | 2 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x82d

    PZ linked to my little debunking of the White House’s lies about the desert tortoise website, and Pharyngula commenter Spinniac did a little calculation that I absolutely love.

    Remember, Joe Biden said — of the deserttortoise.gov website, which

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  • What does the Desert Tortoise Website actually cost?
    By Chris Clarke on 2011 06 13 at 8:11:01 pm | 17 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x51d

    Again, for those of you just seeing this, a quote from an earlier post of mine, citing a new initiative from the White House to “crack down on waste” that leads with a subject near to my heart. This is what the email from Joe Biden said this

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  • A note for future historians if Obama loses in 2012
    By Chris Clarke on 2011 06 13 at 12:26:36 pm | 5 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x60d

    [Update: What does the Desert Tortoise Website actually cost?]

    If, in November 2012, the incumbent in the Presidential election loses the State of California by one vote, and the course of the nation is thereby altered, I would like to take this

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  • BrightSource Kills Another Ivanpah Tortoise
    By Chris Clarke on 2011 04 14 at 11:19:49 pm | 2 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x9zd

    BrightSource killed another Ivanpah tortoise recently, my sources have heard from the BLM. BrightSource, or agents thereof, lined a fence at ground level with black plastic — you’ve seen the stuff if you’ve worked landscaping. It’s dark, it’s

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  • Petition to Save The Desert Tortoise from Big Energy
    By Chris Clarke on 2010 10 21 at 6:46:51 pm | 4 comments | Shorter URL: http://coyot.es/x7Vb

    The petition is here. Go sign it, then tell your friends to do the same. Post it on your blog, mention it in appropriate blog comment threads, facebook and twitter it to hell and back.

    They’re finding a lot more tortoises than they expected at

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  • More Tortoise Video
    By Chris Clarke on 2009 08 27 at 12:13:36 pm | 2 comments

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  • Reptile Squee Time
    By Chris Clarke on 2009 08 24 at 4:14:07 pm | 3 comments

    I can has cheesebush?

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  • Ivanpah Road, Tuesday PM
    By Chris Clarke on 2009 05 13 at 5:32:40 pm | 3 comments

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  • Tortoise alert: letters needed
    By Chris Clarke on 2009 02 10 at 4:04:40 pm | 0 comments

    From the Center for Biological Diversity:

    Last year, the Army moved more than 750 tortoises off of pristine desert lands in order to expand its Fort Irwin army base in California’s Mojave desert. Not all tortoises were monitored, but of those that

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