an approximately 1-foot-long reptile found in desert valleys across California and the American Southwest, a full lifespan ...

Dozens of miles of "tortoise fencing" are being installed along roadsides in prime tortoise habitats, officials said.

A Tuesday ruling finds 6,000 miles of dirt roads set aside for motorized recreation ignored studies showing high death rates ...

Few places host more species than California’s Mojave Desert, a center of biodiversity for lepidoptera, the insect family encompassing roughly 180,000 known moth and butterfly species.

Simple wire fencing — miles of it — is being used at Mojave National Preserve in California to protect Desert tortoises, a threatened species, from being runover by vehicles.

California Native Plant Society, Defenders of Wildlife and the Desert Tortoise Council, sued the federal agencies in 2021 over the 2019 West Mojave Route Network Project, which they said had ...

The Mojave National Preserve is preparing to mark it's 30th birthday on Oct. 31, the anniversary its creation through the California Desert Protection Act of 1994. A judge earlier this week sided ...

A helicopter dangling a massive, hula hoop-shaped sensor will soon be carrying out low-level flights above the High Desert as part of a USGS survey.

The judge ruled that the Bureau of Land Management did not designate off-road vehicle routes with the objective of minimizing ...