If you've ever driven to Joshua Tree from Los Angeles, you're probably familiar with state Route 62. The highway first branches off Interstate 10 near Desert Hot Springs and climbs the steep Morongo ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two desert wildlife crossings will hit the drawing board thanks to a $5.5 million state-funded grant, according to the Mojave ...

Rattlesnake season is here. Learn how to protect yourself and your pets from venomous snakes in the Mojave Desert.

Mojave National Preserve officials are continuing their efforts to protect endangered desert tortoises from vehicles with the installation of dozens of miles of roadside "tortoise fencing" in tortoise ...

Spotting a Mojave Desert tortoise is increasingly difficult in the American Southwest. The tortoises, with their unmistakable domed patterned shells, live in California, parts of Nevada, Arizona and ...

A federal judge has ordered a sweeping shutdown of off-road vehicle routes in the Mojave Desert, closing roughly 2,200 miles ...

A federal judge has partly ruled in favor of environmental groups challenging what one called a vast "spaghetti" network of popular off-road vehicle routes in the Mojave Desert, which they charge are ...

A federal judge has made 2,200 miles of Western Mojave Desert trails off-limits to off-roading bikers and drivers, in the name of preserving the threatened desert tortoise. The Bureau of Land ...

MOJAVE DESERT — The desert tortoise, a once-resilient reptile, is a keystone species in the Mojave Desert, where other animals depend for their survival on the burrows it digs. But it is imperiled in ...

Two people walk down a boardwalk across the Mojave Desert at Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Nevada on April 22, 2025. (Sam Ribakoff/Courthouse News) NYE COUNTY, Nev. (CN) — Outside the ...

Two wildlife crossings in the Mojave Desert will hit the drawing board thanks to a $5.5 million state-funded grant.

The desert tortoise, a once-resilient reptile, is a keystone species in the Mojave Desert, where other animals depend for their survival on the burrows it digs. But it is imperiled in California ...