A dramatic stretch of desert is being proposed as California's next national monument

California's proposed monument, encompassing a river in one of the hottest and driest corners of the country, would be larger ...
Yahoo

Public land in Mojave Desert just named as California's newest national monument

Roughly 740,000 acres of the Mojave Desert comprise California's newest national monument in Riverside and Imperial counties. Chuckwalla National Monument was established in mid-January by outgoing ...
LAist

This iconic tortoise in the Mojave Desert is dying out. It could affect the whole ecosystem

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Los Angeles Times

Judge tosses out Mojave off-road plan for not adequately protecting imperiled tortoise

A judge ruled that federal land managers didn’t show how they minimized impacts to vulnerable species in an off-road vehicle management plan in the Western Mojave Desert. The area is home to the ...
Victorville Daily Press

Job openings announced to protect tortoises in the Mojave Desert Preserve

The Mojave Desert Preserve is hiring seasonal Biological Science Technicians to assist with desert tortoise conservation. The Mojave desert tortoise was declared endangered in California in 2024 after ...