Biologists scour Mojave in desert tortoise roundup
Saturday, October 9, 2010 - 01:00
in Biology & Nature
Reptiles are being moved to make way for a solar-powered generating station.More than 100 biologists and contract workers fanned out across a nearly pristine stretch of the eastern Mojave Desert on Friday to start rounding up tortoises blocking construction of the first major solar energy plant to be built on public land in Southern California.