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 ...

An increase in Joshua Tree visitors has meant bad news for local mountain lions.

There has been a spike in visitors at Snow Canyon State Park as beloved Mojave Desert tortoises make their way out in the 90-degree heat.“Lots of people will co ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A federal judge says Mojave Desert tortoises deserve protecting from roaring trucks ...

A $5.5 million state grant will fund the planning phase for two desert wildlife crossings on State Route 62. The crossings are designed to provide safe passage for wildlife, including threatened ...