Dwelling in Expanded Biotic Communities: Steps Toward Reconstructive Postmodern Communities - Design with the Desert: Conservation and Sustainable Development - page 331

FIGURE 18.8
Desert design of homes with lower walls to be open to the native desert.
FIGURE 18.9
A former golf course made into a neighborhood park and walk way.
trails that are built along desert washes (Figure 18.9). Furthermore a development fee was
initiated in the 1980s to fund a tortoise habitat, so that desert tortoises could be removed from
areas of development and put in a secret location far to the south of Las Vegas. 16 *
Even though Summerlin has golf a course, a program was initiated with the Audubon
Society to make the golf courses certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuaries that provide
habitat and resting areas for birds in the Pacific Flyway. 16 Yet Summerlin's golf courses are
expensive to maintain, especially in times of severe water shortage. †
* Whether the transplanted tortoises would infringe on the habitat of existing tortoises in this area is not
known.
† http://www.lvbusinesspress.com/articles/2006/06/26/news/news12.txt (accessed July 19, 2009).