Desert tortoises were once one of the West’s most abundant reptiles, but their populations have declined 90 percent since the 1980s. In 2005 the Fund completed a three-year effort with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Kern River Gas Transmission Company to protect nearly 600 acres of prime tortoise habitat. The project helped Kern River Gas to mitigate its construction of a natural gas pipeline through Utah.
Mountain West
Where Montana’s dramatic peaks give way to the Northern Great Plains, the Rocky Mountain Front forms a landscape unlike any other in America. The Front represents some of the nation’s rarest wildlife habitat -- for grizzlies and other species -- and today it is under threat. Read more »
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Grizzlies On The Front