Drawing of bottom view of turtle (13 x 17 cm.)Repository: Ernst Mayr Library, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard UniversityCall number: bAg 168.60.10 (4)d
About a foot long. I have only seen one other wild Desert Tortoise many years ago,so I was happy to see him/her. These guys are becoming very rare,like many desert reptiles, because they get run over, and taken home as pets. Now they are protected as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. This population in Utah is their northeastern most, and they are particularly rare here.