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BLM paying premium prices for holdings in desert tortoise reserve

Agency has to pay market value to compensate landowners who have acreage in Red Cliffs.

Courtesy | Kelly Kelso A federally protected Mojave desert tortoise ventures across the open at Red Cliffs National Conservation Area near St. George. Controversy is brewing over a transportation corridor Washington County officials want to build across the tortoise reserve in the conservation area.