But popular desert campgrounds, including near Joshua Tree, are still at risk, as GOP Sen. Mike Lee vows to continue fight for sale of BLM lands.

Mojave desert tortoises, listed as threatened under ... which eventually burned more than 70,000 acres. Willoughby said many of the forests harmed in that blaze 18 years ago still have not recovered.

A massive fire burning through the desert in California and southern Nevada has scorched tens of thousands of acres in a biodiverse national preserve and torched its iconic Joshua trees.. The York ...

Millions of acres of the Mojave Desert, home to five military bases and at least 40 protected species, including the desert tortoise and Joshua trees, will have more protection thanks to a designa ...

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

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 ...

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 total, more than 8,000 acres of this monument ... include parts of the Mojave National Reserve and parts of the Jacumba Mountains Wilderness. California’s desert lands store 10% of the ...

Millions of acres in the Mojave Desert have been designated as a Sentinel Landscape, meaning more will be done to balance military training with protecting listed plants and animals such as the ...