One of our greatest concerns... tortoises will prematurely attempt to burrow, but the homogenized soils will no longer be structurally capable of sustaining a burrow.

One of our greatest concerns... tortoises will prematurely attempt to burrow, but the homogenized soils will no longer be structurally capable of sustaining a burrow.

Attachment_USFWS-Letter-to-Colonel-Daniel-Hibner

Any additional mining would be closer to the refuge. --FWS to Sen. Perdue

21 November 2019

One of our greatest concerns... tortoises will prematurely attempt to burrow, but the homogenized soils will no longer be structurally capable of sustaining a burrow.

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