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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, "Environmentalist group that recently toured the Mojave Desert to show evidence of damage done by indiscriminate use of off-road vehicle say they believe holes on this live desert tortoise shell were caused by bullets."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00094580
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 88
CARL0005023525
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/29030
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
Mojave Desert
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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