Bureau of Land Management

Description

(1) to develop methods to speed the growth of hatchery-raised tortoises (mainly by extending food availability through irrigation of native plants within the pens used to protect the juveniles from predators), and to document the size and age at which hatchery-raised tortoises reach sexual maturity, (2) to determine whether generating hatchlings in hatcheries affects their gender (tortoise gender is determined by nest temperature and nesting inside hatchery pens may skew sex ratios one way or the other), and (3) to use hatchery-raised tortoises as a source of juveniles to restock areas depleted of wild desert tortoises, and to augment existing populations.

Who can apply

• Unrestricted

Contact

Traci D Thaler, Grants and Agreements Specialist, 916-978-4529<br/>tthaler@blm.gov<br/>
tthaler@blm.gov