Mary Lane Poe, biologist, Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs, feeds the juvenile tortoises too young to be released at the enclosures at the Headstart facility at the Tortoise Research and Captive Rearing Site aboard Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif., April 5, 2017. TRACRS released 50 juvenile tortoises in March. The program was designed to find effective ways to increase the population of the tortoises on and around the installation as well as to solve potential problems wild tortoises face today.

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