Mary Lane Poe, biologist, Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs, tracks released desert tortoises using directional antennas and receivers at Sand Hill training area aboard Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif., April 5, 2017. The release of 50 juvenile tortoise from the Tortoise Research and Captive Rearing Site occurred in March. The program was designed to find effective ways to increase the population of the tortoises on and around the installation as well as solve potential problems that wild tortoises face today. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Dave Flores) - Mary Lane Poe, biologist, Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs, tracks released desert tortoises using directional antennas and receivers at Sand Hill training area aboard Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif., April 5, 2017. The release of 50 juvenile tortoise from the Tortoise Research and Captive Rearing Site occurred in March. The program was designed to find effective ways to increase the population of the tortoises on and around the installation as well as solve potential problems that wild tortoises face today. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Dave Flores)
Girls Scouts of Troop 1744 cover up pipe used for new borrows for ambassador tortoises Thelma and Louise at the Combat Center’s Archeology and Paleontology Curation Center April 12, 2016. The troop visited the installation to earn their Wildlife Habitat Badges which are earned through education on native wild animals and how they live. (Official Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Thomas Mudd/Released) - Girls Scouts of Troop 1744 cover up pipe used for new borrows for ambassador tortoises Thelma and Louise at the Combat Center’s Archeology and Paleontology Curation Center April 12, 2016. The troop visited the installation to earn their Wildlife Habitat Badges which are earned through education on native wild animals and how they live. (Official Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Thomas Mudd/Released)