FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2008, file photo, an endangered desert tortoise, sits in the middle of a road at the proposed location of three BrightSource Energy solar-energy generation complexes in the eastern Mojave Desert near Ivanpah, Calif. Federal authorities have approved a plan to move nearly 1,500 desert tortoises from a Southern California Marine base. The removal could begin at the end of March or in April 2017, after the reptiles emerge from their underground winter hibernation. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)
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