This past month, the Turtle Conservancy Board of Directors and Staff were invited to participate in the release of 25 Bolson Tortoises back into their Pleistocene range. Joining 75 others that now range free on the Armendaris Ranch, these tortoises are part of a group of over 700 captive-bred Bolson Tortoises raised on Ted Turner's Armendaris and Ladder Ranches in New Mexico. Bolson tortoises were unknown to science until the remnant population in Mexico was discovered in 1959. Wild bolson tortoises have been absent from the continental U.S. for over 10,000 years, during the late Pleistocene Epoch…