In Fort Irwin, Calif., scientists started moving the desert tortoise, the Mojave Desert's flagship species. This effort to make room for tank training at the Army's Fort Irwin has left many conservationists up in arms.
Fort Irwin wnats to expand its 643,000-acre training site an extra 131,000 acres into tortoise territory to accommodate faster tanks and longer-range weapons used to train roughly 4,000 troops.
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