Sonoran Desert Tortoise

Sonoran Desert Tortoise

SACPA’s Comments Written by Dennis Parker

Results of SACPA’s Comments:

The Winkelman Natural Resources Conservation District (WNRCD) called the US Fish and Wildlife Service into Coordination. During the coordination process the WNRCD and USFWS reviewed the comments SACPA submitted. The WNRCD also introduced into the administrative record the preliminary results of an ongoing, decades-long study of the impacts of cattle grazing on the Sonoran Desert Tortoise. The USFWS accepted the study as the Best Available Science and reversed its decision that cattle grazing in the USA negatively affects the Sonoran Desert Tortoise.

• US Fish and Wildlife Service links to all Federal Register Notices and press releases regarding the Sonoran Desert Tortoise
• Aug 28, 2009 Federal Register Notice on 90-Day Finding on Petition to List the Sonoran Desert Tortoise