Desert Tortoise
* The Times, in its coverage of the designation of 6.4 million acres of critical desert tortoise habitat, focused on the 1,000 acres in Ward Valley (Feb. 8).
There were two lawsuits which forced this designation: one by the nuclear folks focusing on Ward Valley; one by the environmental community focusing on the survival of the tortoise.
The suit by the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund in behalf of the Sierra Club, the Wilderness Society, Desert Protective Council, Desert Tortoise Council, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Natural Resources Defense Council, Defenders of Wildlife, and the Desert Tortoise Preserve Committee has brought a major victory in the battle to save the tortoise and its entire ecosystem.
Survival of the desert tortoise and our desert ecosystem is still far from assured.
ELDEN HUGHES, Chair
Sierra Club
California Desert Committee
Whittier
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