Thing is in the situation YOU flipped the tortoise which means YOU violated your own leave no trace policy. Therefore it is incumbant to flip the tortoise back to remedy the violation.

Also smuglord "tortoises don't live in deserts" I give you the Desert Tortoise

The species is native to the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, and to the Sinaloan thornscrub of northwestern Mexico. G. agassizii is distributed in western Arizona, southeastern California, southern Nevada, and southwestern Utah.

Then I realized it knew about desert tortoises in the first response. Hold up.... is our State Dept talking points made from A.I.?