Tortoise Terrace
Building…"Tortoise Awareness" Through Public Education.
Providing…A Way-station for Adoptable Tortoises.
Creating…An Opportunity to Engage Students & Teachers in the Process of Science Inquiry.
Tortoise Terrace is supported and maintained through a partnership
between California Turtle and Tortoise Club's High Desert Chapter
and the Lewis Center for Educational Research
Tortoise Terrace, Apple Valley, CA 92307
Viewing by appointment only - contact Dave Zantiny

Note How the Paddocks Terrace up. Each Paddock is About 15' by 22'

Our Largest Male Tortoise

Burrow Dug by the Large Male Tortoise

Burrows in Paddocks 2 and 3 Are Electronically Monitored for Air, Surface and
Subsurface Temperatures and for Relative Humidity in a Student Research Project

Front View of Paddocks (a)

Front View of Paddocks (b)
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