The Barrow Plot Where Jeff Lovich Conducts Desert Tortoise Research
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Sunset on the Barrow Plot in eastern Joshua Tree National Park. This area used to be inhabited by a healthy population of desert tortoises, but by 2012 many were dead due to the effects of protracted drought and predation by coyotes. Photo taken May 4, 2012.
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Desert Tortoise Ecology
Agassiz’s desert tortoises ( Gopherus agassizii ) approach the southern edge of their mostly Mojave Desert range near Joshua Tree National Park. Modern desert tortoise research started in the Park in 1978 when the first tortoise population census was conducted on a one square mile area in the Pinto Basin known as the “Barrow Plot.” U.S. Geological Survey research began at the plot in 1997 and...
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Desert Tortoise Ecology
Agassiz’s desert tortoises ( Gopherus agassizii ) approach the southern edge of their mostly Mojave Desert range near Joshua Tree National Park. Modern desert tortoise research started in the Park in 1978 when the first tortoise population census was conducted on a one square mile area in the Pinto Basin known as the “Barrow Plot.” U.S. Geological Survey research began at the plot in 1997 and...