"The Army has awarded a five-year, $6.9 million contract to relocate desert tortoises in the Mojave Desert.
The contractor, ITS Corp. will locate, track, capture, translocate and study the estimated 700 to 1,000 threatened desert tortoises that currently live on part of the U.S. Army’s National Training Center Ft. Irwin, according to a statement from the company. That equates to an average of $6,900 per tortoise."