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Butterfly prompts Girl Scouts to close camp near Las Vegas

The Girl Scouts of Southern Nevada is abandoning its longtime camp in the mountains west of Las Vegas, in part because of restrictions placed on the property to protect the endangered Mount Charleston blue butterfly.

 
Threatened desert tortoises set free south of Boulder City

Government scientists on Friday released a dozen members of a threatened tortoise species into a conservation area about 25 miles southeast of Las Vegas in a bid to “jump start” the existing population.