Facebook Twitter Pintrest. The Grand Hotel at the Grand Canyon is the premier hotel in the region and one of the few area hotels with an indoor swimming pool and spa. Built in 1998, our hotel is just one mile from the entrance to Grand Canyon National Park, with scenic South Rim of the Canyon just a short car ride away. Plus, guests receive a complimentary South Rim Walking Tour Brochure and a coupon to use at the historic Hopi House gift shop.
The bog turtle (Glyptemys muhlenbergii), Americaâs smallest turtle, is federally listed as Threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Bog turtles depend upon a habitat mosaic of open, sunny, spring fed wetlands and scattered dry areas.
The Ploughshare Tortoise qualifies as Critically Endangered under several criteria: Its population, historically depleted for local/regional consumption and habitat burning to less than 1,000 animals for the past few decades, has declined sharply in recent years as a result of poaching for the illegal pet trade, with the current population estimate being somewhere near 200 mature animals in the wild and the threat of poaching increasing; thus, criterion A4ad appears to be met.