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28th Annual Meeting and Symposium of the
Desert Tortoise Council, February 21-23, 2003
Abstracts
POSTER
Burrow Transmitter
Ryan Young
147 Avenida Florencia Apt. A, San Clemente, CA 92672
During the 2002 Littlefield study plot in Arizona, I developed a modification on a transmitter/receiver system to assist in monitoring tortoises in burrows that were either too far in to remove or high temperatures discouraged processing during the initial encounter. I call it the burrow transmitter. It is a remote sensing technique used to monitor tortoise activity in burrows. The burrow transmitter can be used to monitor multiple burrows, provides information regarding tortoise activity in response to temperature changes, decreases harassment associated with probes and is a more sterile technique. The applications of the burrow transmitter include construction monitoring projects, G0 work on line distance, focal animal studies, plot work and other wildlife projects.