5 On April 5, 2021 the Tortoise Research and Captive Rearing Site (TRACRS) at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC) Twentynine Palms released a group of 98 juvenile desert tortoises into the wild. The tortoises were protected and raised in the TRACRS facility and were monitored as part of the MCAGCC translocation program.
In 2006, MCAGCC Twentynine Palms began the headstart program to rehabilitate the desert tortoise , a threatened species that lives in and around the base. The goal is to bolster the natural population, which has declined 50-90% in the Mojave Desert due to a wide range of threats, including ravens, coyotes, habitation degradation, disease, road mortalities and invasive plants.
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Marines break ground on new war game center Quantico, Virginia, Wargaming Center official groundbreaking on May 12. MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Virginia ― The Marine Corps broke ground here on what it plans will be a state-of-the-art war gaming center, to direct war fighting experiments and pull feedback from across the fleet to continuously refine how Marines fight. Lt. Gen. Eric Smith told the audience that the $79 million center will help get resources, whether that’s equipment or new tactics, to Marines in the field quicker. “It’s a big deal to those 19-year-olds here, to the ones down at Parris Island or at San Diego, because they do the fighting and the dying,” Smith said. “We’re going to make sure they do less of the dying part by what we do here.”
Can picturing landscapes also be a political intervention? Incendiary Traces seeks to use the act of (re)picturing as a tool for connecting to remote sites of conflict; to bring the there, here. At a draw-in at the 29 Palms Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, participants used drawing as a tool for connecting the Southern California landscape to foreign battle zones. Read more
The Marine Corps has announced will temporarily close the Johnson Valley Shared Use Area to the public this Friday (April 30), through Monday, May 10 to conduct military training. The adjacent Johnson Valley Off Highway Vehicle Recreation Area, managed by the BLM, will remain open to the public during the closure. Off-road enthusiasts can also enjoy the nearby Stoddard Valley OHV Open Area.
Other dates the shared use area will be closed to the public are October 15-November 1.
For additional information, including a map of the area, please visit:
http://www.29palms.marines.mil/johnsonvalley/. Questions or inquiries may be directed to the Resource Management Group by emailing the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at: