"Solar projects still sorting out tortoises' fate"

[Jim_b]

"Solar projects still sorting out tortoises' fate" (Riverside Press Enterprise, 9/3/10)

"BrightSource Energy Co. has pounded hundreds of wooden surveyor stakes into the earth in northeast San Bernardino County while awaiting final decisions from state and federal agencies on whether to turn 5.6 square miles of public land into a solar energy plant .... A major obstacle remains, however. Still unresolved is what to do with desert tortoises living in the project's path in the Ivanpah Valley near Primm, Nev."

http://www.pe.com/localnews/stories/PE_ ... f0585.html

[Plays In The Dirt]

If this is the area I think it is, and I'm sure it is, it's nothing but flat desert, barren of any vegetative growth at all. I doubt that there's any tortoises out there.