| August |
Community Involvement through Environmental Education |
| Averill-Murray |
Comparison of Sonoran and Mojave Tortoises: Is the Sonoran
Desert Tortoise Likely to be Listed, and if so, What Can We Learn from the Mojave Experience |
| Averill-Murray, Cordery, and Taylor |
Desert Tortoise Management in Arizona |
| Beck |
The Tortoise and the Gila Monster:
Common Place; Common Destiny? |
| Berry |
Declining Trends in Desert Tortoise Populations at Long-term
Study Plots in California between 1979 and 2002: Multiple Issues |
| Berry, Brown, Wendland, Origgi, Johnson, Anderson,
Bailey, Woodman and Evans |
Health Assessments of Captive and Wild Desert Tortoises at 26
Sites in the Mojave and Colorado Deserts, California, in 2002 |
| Blythe, Swann, Steidl, and Stitt |
Movement Patterns of Translocated Desert Tortoises |
| Boarman, Kristan and Webb |
The Ecology Of A Subsidized Predator In The Mojave Desert:
Common Raven |
| Brooks, Esque and Matchett |
Current Status and Management of Alien Plants and Fire in Desert
Tortoise Habitat |
| Brooks, Berry, Proctor and Shapiro |
Effects of Fenced Habitat Protection on Annual and Perennial
Plants in the Western Mojave Desert |
| Brooks, Esque, Matchett and D'Elia |
Recent Fire History in the Mojave Desert, 1980-2001 |
| Brooks and Lair |
Potential Effects of Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition on the
Dominance of Alien Annual Plants in the Mojave Desert |
| Brooks, Matchett, Esque and Wallace |
Fire Hazard Mapping at the Mojave National Preserve |
| Brooks and Santos |
Can Removal of Alien Annual Grasses Significantly Benefit Native
Annual Plants? |
| Brooks and Trader |
Fire Temperatures and Their Effects on Annual Plants in
Creosotebush Scrub |
| Brown, Schumacher, McLaughlin, Wendland,
Brown, Klein and Jacobson |
Tortoise Mycoplasmas and URTD |
| Brown, Klein and Wendland |
Concepts and Importance of Disinfection |
| Brown, Klein, Oli, McCoy, Mushinsky, Wendland,
Brown and Berish |
NSF Project on "URTD and the Environmentally-Threatened
Gopher Tortoise" |
| Burroughs, Gibson, and Hoff |
Clark County Highway Fencing Progress |
| Burroughs and LaBar |
Desert Tortoise Collection, Husbandry, and Disposition in Nevada |
| Connor |
Desert Tortoise Preserve Committee: Major Accomplishments in
2002 and Plans for 2003 |
| Edwards, Schwalbe, Swann, Goldberg, and Stitt |
Analysis of Gene Flow Among Sonoran Desert Tortoise Populations
Using Molecular Techniques and Radiotelemetry |
| Esque, Haines, Nussear and Tracy |
A Regional Study of Hibernation of Desert Tortoises: Hibernation
Temperatures, Timing, and Site Characteristics |
| Evans, U.S. Marine Corps and Husung, |
Desert Tortoise Conservation and Management at the Marine Corps
Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California |
| Field, Tracy, Medica, Marlow, and Corn |
Spring, Fall, or Winter? Success of Desert Tortoise
Translocation as Affected by Season of Release |
| Gibson |
Mojave Max: The Making of a Local Icon |
| Goodlett |
Zero Take Strategies For Construction Projects In High Density
Tortoise Habitat |
| Goodwin, Saethre, Esque, Medica, Marlow and
Tracy |
The Desert Tortoise Density Experiment: Does Carrying Capacity
Exist for a Species Living in a Stochastic Desert Environment? |
| Goodwin, Saethre, Esque, Medica, Marlow and Tracy |
Reproduction of the Desert Tortoise (Gopherus
agassizii) in
Clark County, Nevada |
| Hagan |
Desert Tortoise Protection and Management at Edwards Air Force
Base, California |
| Hansen |
Recovery of the Desert Tortoise in the California Desert
Conservation Area |
| Hillier |
Desert Tortoise Management issues: QuadState County Government
Coalition |
| Hubbard |
A Modest Proposal: Halting Desert Tortoise Declines by Focusing
All Recovery Efforts on Disease Control and Raven Removal |
| Inman, Brenneman, and Heaton |
Spatial and Temporal Searching of Desert Tortoise Information |
| Johnson, Jacobson, Origgi, and Brown |
Herpesvirus Infection in a Captive Desert Tortoise (Gopherus
agassizii) |
| Joia, |
Desert Tortoise Conservation and Management at Marine Corps
Logistics Base, Barstow, California |
| Jones |
California Department of Fish and Game and the Desert Tortoise,
Our State Reptile |
| Kenna |
Desert Managers Group Tortoise Recovery Actions, with Emphasis
on the Effectiveness Evaluation |
| Mader |
The Red Cliffs Desert Reserve in Utah: Accomplishments and
Thoughts |
| Matchett, Brooks, and Berry |
Plant Community Structure Associated with Livestock Watering
Sites in the Central Mojave Desert |
| McLuckie, Fridell, Radant and Miller |
Baseline Monitoring in the Upper Virgin River Recovery Unit |
| McLuckie and Fridell |
Reproduction in a Desert Tortoise (Gopherus agassizii)
Population on the Beaver Dam Slope, Washington County, Utah |
| Medica, Corn and Marlow |
Evolution of Line Distance Sampling to Monitor Desert Tortoises
in the Mojave Desert |
| Morafka and Johnson |
Potential Assets and Liabilities Inherent to Desert Tortoise
Hatchery Nurseries |
| Morse, Murphy and Jamrog |
Status of the Bureau of Land Management's Desert Tortoise
Recovery Program In Nevada |
| Murphy, Morafka and Berry |
Defining the Desert Tortoises(s): Our First Priority for a
Coherent Conservation Strategy |
| Nussear and Tracy |
Solar Absorptance of the Carapace Appears to Have Little
Influence on the Thermal Biology of Desert Tortoises |
| Oftedal |
Are Desert Tortoises Nutritionally Constrained By A Shortage Of
High PEP Plants, And If So, What Do We Do? |
| Oftedal |
Does Nutritional Ecology Underlie the Greater Susceptibility of
Mojave Tortoises than Sonoran Tortoises to Population Crashes? |
| Origgi, Johnson and Jacobson |
Validation of the ELISA test for Herpesvirus Exposure Detection
in Desert Tortoises: Options and Limitations |
| Ostler and Hansen |
New Technologies to Assess Vegetation Changes and to Revegetate
Disturbances in the Mojave Desert |
| Patterson |
Two Years After The CDCA Lawsuit Settlement: Interior Rolls-back
Conservation and Forces New Litigation |
| Pennix, |
Desert Tortoise Conservation and Management at Naval Air Weapons
Station, China Lake, California |
| Quillman |
Desert Tortoise Protection, Management, and Education on the
National Training Center and Fort Irwin, California |
| Riedle, Bolen and Averill-Murray |
Habitat Use by Desert Tortoises at the Florence Military
Reservation, Pinal County, Arizona: A 2002 Update |
| Riedle and Averill-Murray |
Incidence of Disease Symptoms at Sonoran Desert Long-term
Monitoring Plots |
| Rostal and Lance |
The History of Upper Respiratory Tract Disease in the Eastern
Mojave Desert Tortoise: Observations from the Desert Tortoise Conservation Center, Las Vegas,
Nevada |
| Rostal, Wibbels, Averill-Murray, Stitt
and Riedle |
Temperature-dependent Sex Determination in North American
Tortoises, Gopherus agassizii and Gopherus polyphemus |
| Saethre, Esque, Medica, Marlow and Tracy |
Determining the Carrying Capacity of Desert Tortoises |
| Selzer |
An Historical Overview of the Clark County Desert Conservation
Plan---Key Issues and How They were Resolved |
| Simecka |
Immunity and the Desert Tortoise: The Unknown Factor in
Survival? |
| Soderberg |
Defense Department Participation in Desert Tortoise Management
Major |
| Stitt, Averill-Murray, Christopher, Swann, Schwalbe
and Esque |
Desert Tortoise Reproduction and Home Range at Saguaro National
Park, Tucson, Arizona |
| Tracy, Nussear, Medica, Marlow, and Corn |
Monitoring the Desert Tortoise: Needs for the Present and Future |
| Tracy, Nussear, Esque, Dean-Bradley, Castle and
DeFalco |
Diet Selection: The Nutritional Wisdom
Hypothesis |
| Vaughn, Rodriguez Garcia, Nabhan, and West |
Desert Tortoise Mortality Surveys on Seri Lands Sonora, Mexico |
| Wallenmeyer |
The Clark County Desert Conservation Program: Embracing Adaptive
Management and Effectiveness Monitoring |
| Williams |
Status of Desert Tortoise Recovery |
| Young |
Burrow Transmitter |
