Slow, steady -- and under siege
Sunday, May 11, 2008 - 05:49
in Biology & Nature
Endangered tortoises airlifted from an Army base face other threats. As the sun rose over the Mojave Desert, researcher Kristina Drake approached with caution as a creature with weary eyes, a scuffed carapace and skin as rough as rhino hide peered at her from the edge of a dirt road just east of here.