Project record

Photograph: Pacific Southwest Region USFWS from Sacramento, US; enclosure builder not established · Photographed 17 April 2014

  • The USFWS source identifies the location as the Ivanpah Solar Electricity Generating Plant and the structure as a desert-tortoise enclosure.
  • The original photograph is dated 17 April 2014.

Details not established by this record

  • The source does not provide a construction sequence, cost record or independent husbandry assessment.
  • Temperature, humidity, UVB and long-term occupancy measurements are not supplied.
  • This is an infrastructure/conservation-site reference, not a home-enclosure recommendation.
  • Use the explicit CC BY 2.0 route with credit even though the page also marks the image as US government public domain.

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Photo: Pacific Southwest Region USFWS from Sacramento, US. CC BY 2.0. Wikimedia thumbnail resized as needed and compressed to WebP; no cropping or subject alteration. Keep the photographer, original source and license linked beside the photograph.

Source and reuse check: 2026-09-08. The original creator does not endorse this site. The pictured enclosure is not independently assessed here.

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