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Desert Content for 嘿嘿视频enEndangered Amargosa Voles Begin to Repopulate Desert Habitat
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嘿嘿视频 wildlife cameras revealed pups born to endangered Amargosa voles that were reintroduced to a Shoshone marsh. This indicates the voles are beginning to repopulate their native habitat after restoration efforts.September 06, 2022 - 2:38pmKatherine E Kerlin/news/endangered-amargosa-voles-begin-repopulate-desert-habitatBaja Field Station Plans Underway
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<p><span><span><span>I don鈥檛 know about you, but there are huge parts of the past couple of years that I just missed. Even things in 2019 completely escaped my radar as the pandemic interrupted their momentum. </span></span></span></p>January 07, 2022 - 12:01pmKatherine E Kerlin/news/baja-field-station-plans-underwayDesert Tortoises Can鈥檛 Take the Heat of Roadside Fencing
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<p>Desert tortoises pace back and forth and can overheat by roadside fencing meant to help them, according to a <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320717301325">study published in the journal <em>Biological Conservation</em></a> by the University of California, Davis, and the University of Georgia<em>. </em></p>August 04, 2017 - 5:18pmKatherine E Kerlin/news/desert-tortoises-can%E2%80%99t-take-heat-roadside-fencingEndangered Amargosa Voles Need More Than a Rainy Day
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<p>Despite the welcome rains in California this year, the fate of endangered Amargosa voles that depend on rare marshes in the Mojave Desert remains dire, with only about 500 animals remaining in the wild and most of their habitat degraded or dying. Yet techniques to modify vole habitat could create sustainable patches for them to live.</p>June 05, 2017 - 1:57pmKatherine E Kerlin/news/endangered-amargosa-voles-need-more-rainy-dayWind Turbines Affect Behavior of Desert Tortoise Predators
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<p>How a wind energy facility is designed can influence the behavior of animal predators and their prey, according to <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1002/jwmg.21262/abstract">a recent study published in <em>The Journal of Wildlife Management</em></a> by researchers at the University of California, Davis, and the U.S. Geological Survey.</p>May 03, 2017 - 3:19pmKatherine E Kerlin/news/wind-turbines-affect-behavior-desert-tortoise-predators