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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s a brisk day in Johannesburg, a tiny mining town tucked among the Rand Mountains in the Mojave Desert. The landscape is vast and rugged, a mishmash of rock, dirt and creosote bushes, swaths of ...

Ken Layne was at Theatre 29, a space in the town of Twentynine Palms, in the Mojave Desert, conducting a sound check before a live performance of “Desert Oracle,” his late-night radio show and podcast ...

If it’s spring, it’s gotta be Mojave Max time in Southern Nevada. Many area residents know Mojave Max from his annual emergence contest, where elementary school students participate in the ...

The announcement of Chuckwalla National Monument makes historic contributions to conservation in the Southwest. Spanning roughly 18 million acres and stretching 600 miles from Utah to California, the ...

A lot has changed in the Morongo Basin over the past 15 years. Joshua Tree National Park’s annual visitation has increased from around 1.2 million people in 2006 to nearly 3 million people in 2019.

The 2nd Annual East Mojave Trek, a four-day event, will begin April 24 at the Goffs Schoolhouse. The event, hosted by the California Four Wheel Drive Association and Mojave Desert Heritage and ...

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