The Mojave Desert Land Trust expects to do much ... It’s also the heart of desert tortoise habitat in California, said Ken MacDonald, board member at-large and former president of the Desert ...

Following more than three decades of declining numbers, the Mojave desert tortoise has been officially declared an endangered species in California. The California Fish and Game Commission voted u ...

Seventy critically endangered Mojave desert tortoises are bringing hope to their threatened species. Six months ago, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance (SDWZA) and The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens ...

Desert tortoises have lived in the deserts of California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah since the Pleistocene. In the early years of the 20th century, they still thrived within the Southwest's arid ...

Mojave Max, a desert tortoise mascot for the Clark County Desert Conservation Program, is Las Vegas’ Punxsutawney Phil equivalent. Every year, elementary students guess when the famous reptile ...

The proposed project would occupy just under 2,000 acres directly adjacent to Mojave National Preserve. It would include a substation, access road, realignment of an existing route (Rasor Road), ...

Many area residents know Mojave Max from his annual emergence contest, where elementary school students participate in the Punxsutawney Phil-esque tradition of guessing when the desert tortoise ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - Still no sign of Mojave Max our Desert Tortoises and weather prognosticator like Punxsutawney Phil the groundhog everyone turns to in early February to see if we get an ...

The Mojave National Preserve and Federal Highway Administration are inviting the public to comment on a proposed road project ...

The project will permanently protect western Joshua tree and desert tortoise habitat near the newly designated Mojave Desert Sentinel Landscape. The 3.5 million acre Mojave Desert Sentinel ...