States rights tortoise nationalism is the worst tortoise nationalism

You can’t bequeath them to just anyone. Veronica Tomlinson, 52, had thought about leaving Walter, a 24-year-old desert tortoise, to East Coast relatives if she and her husband died first. But state laws prohibit people from moving desert tortoises out of the state where they were adopted. The Tomlinsons, of Las Vegas, have instructions in their will for Walter to be returned to the Tortoise Group, a Nevada-based nonprofit that arranges tortoise adoptions. The couple plan to leave the group their savings and life-insurance money, after paying debts and funeral costs, to cover Walter’s care.

Emphasis is added, not in the original.  Here is the full WSJ story, via Anecdotal.  No Coase theorem for Walter!