Virginia Bernal, Santa Ana To the editor: I enjoyed reading the article on the effect of large-scale solar power on the Mojave Desert habitat. Unfortunately, continued degradation of the desert ...

The Mojave Desert Land Trust said the Ranch Fire near Apple Valley has impacted a quarter of a 592-acre protected nature ...

(Clark County Desert Conservation Program via AP ... of minimizing harm to the tortoises or other species in the Mojave. Tejeda argued the agency was required to apply an “undue degradation standard” ...

Some believe the desert is silent. They picture a vast mute nothing, hot enough to grill a steak on your vehicle’s hood and dry enough to chap your soul. They think of scorched plains, scrubby plants ...

The tortoise population has declined 50% to 90% in the Mojave Desert due to a wide range of threats, including ravens, coyotes, habitation degradation, disease, being run over by vehicles and ...

“The Mojave Desert is one of North America’s largest ... to use the best available science have allowed increasing degradation of our public lands and pushed the desert tortoise closer to ...

A 3.5-million-acre swath of Mojave Desert between Ridgecrest and the Morongo Basin has received a new federal designation that advocates hope will help protect vulnerable wildlife like the Mojave ...

To stop. This is the Mojave National Preserve — 1.6 million acres of desert made strange and sacred by lava flows, fossil beds, abandoned mines, creosote, Joshua trees. In the middle of it all ...

The tortoise population has declined 50% to 90% in the Mojave Desert due to a wide range of threats, including ravens, coyotes, habitation degradation, disease, being run over by vehicles and ...