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Title: Protecting tortoises in the Mojave Desert
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Howell, E. Bruce
Date Created and/or Issued: 1974
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated April 3, 1974 reads, "Shy desert tortoise curls up inside his shell on top of a groove left in desert sand by motorcycle on the Stoddard Valley off-road vehicle racing area of Barstow. Already legally protected as an endangered species, environmentalists and scientists say threat is heightened along with other desert life by off-road vehicle activities."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00094576
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 88
CARL0005022850
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/28967
Subject: United States.--Bureau of Land Management.--California Desert District.--Northern and Eastern Mojave Planning Area
Turtles--California, Southern
Animals--Effect of off-road vehicles on--California, Southern
Deserts--Effect of off-road vehicles on--California, Southern
Off-road vehicles
Deserts--California, Southern
Stoddard Valley (San Bernardino County, Calif.)
Mojave Desert
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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