fake tortise/ watch out

[troyharper]

department...........................

Apparently through a joint grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the US Forrest Service, an anti-access group has been "seeding" the Southern Nevada and Southern California desert with serial-numbered plastic replica desert tortoise's. They are marking the location of each and every "plant" with a GPS and recording them. Then they are regularly returning to the "plant" to see if it has been disturbed, and if so how far it has been moved. They are then purporting that the "tortoise" was struck by an OHV and thrown to it's new location. They are then using the distance it was displaced to "estimate the speed of the irresponsible OHV user" who "killed" the tortoise.

No, no, I am not kidding. This is being accepted as a "scientific" study, with accredited results.
Does anyone else see the many variables here?
How can you prove an OHV user "hit" the planted tortoise?
Who's word are we taking as to how far it flew?
What outside verification of the incident occurred?
The list goes on and on!

This is apparently a "perversion" of this very well thought out earlier study / proposal: ( http://www.dmg.gov/documents/DT-Threats.pdf) where Styrofoam tortoises were used.

Has any one seen one of these plants in the "wild" yet?

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[FlyHiFlyLo]

I say we round up all the fake tortoise and put them in Barbra Boxer's dumpster. LOL

[GeoffMilke]

I say we round up all the fake tortoise and put them in Barbra Boxer's dumpster. LOL

That's a good one. Or, whenever somebody finds one they could deliver it to the nearest Sierra Club office.

[Pete_Rose]

Sounds like we (THE OHV COMMUNITY) should post a bounty $25.00 per head.

[Kartman]

If you find one just keep it.

[Let's go off roading]

If I find one I will put it on my lawn with my plastic flamingo.

[Young&Fast]

I'm just gonna strap it to my fender, then take it for a ride that it'll never forget. Then put it on my wall.

[JRod]

goddang federal government and liberal tree/saguaro hugging pansies.... the country is facing an economic downturn and they're blowing money on this BS!

[GeoffMilke]

If you find one just keep it.

They have lojack..........you keep one you'll have federal law enforcement officials knocking down your door..............remember Janet Reno?

[pappawheely]

"Lack of scientific evidence supporting a purported impact should not be confused
with automatically supporting the alternative, that there is no impact, and vice versa. Or
as it is sometimes said: “absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” It may just
mean that credible or definitive studies testing the hypothesized effects have either not
been conducted or not been reported adequately."

So, Even though there is no evidence to support our BS, We must close the desert so more studies can be done to prove our theory we hope, but we're not biased at all.