"Federal funds for a Nevada-based desert tortoise conservation center are running dry and wildlife officials plan to close the facility and euthanize hundreds of tortoises that were once classified as "endangered" and are currently considered "threatened."

Carol told me that President Reagan, dirty old tree hugger that he was set the fees that Bundy was welching on buy exec order and that the fees that Bundy was supposed to pay were earmark for the desert tortoise. A million dollars no doubt could have kept the rescue station open a little longer.