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 ...

Ivanpahs’s location in the sweeping, sun-drenched Mojave Desert may have seemed ideal for generating solar power, but it is also a habitat for threatened desert tortoises. While the plant’s developers ...

The Mojave Desert Land Trust opposes the move ... at-risk species such as the Joshua tree and the Endangered Mojave Desert tortoise." Staffing at Joshua Tree National Park was already operating ...

The rocky shelf road leading to the mine winds through every layer of the Mojave. Desert tortoise habitat gives way to yucca- and cholla-studded hills, followed by stands of pinyon pine ...

Meanwhile, environmentalists continue to blame the Mojave Desert plant for killing thousands of birds and tortoises. The Ivanpah solar power plant formally opened in 2014 on roughly 5 square miles ...

Mojave National Preserve is wedged between ... This portion of the park serves as home to roadrunners and the desert tortoise. The preserve’s 165 miles of paved roads and 70 miles of dirt ...

At 9:50 p.m. Monday, Feb. 17, a magnitude 3.0 earthquake struck 10 miles north-northeast of Barstow in the Mojave ... of desert adapted wildlife are found here, including the desert tortoise ...

"You can catch as many as ten desert tortoises in one area during the spring," said Apple ... The late winter downpours in the Mojave Desert now are promising for early spring blooms of desert sweet ...

Ivanpahs’s location in the sweeping, sun-drenched Mojave Desert may have seemed ideal for generating solar power, but it is also a habitat for threatened desert tortoises. While the plant’s ...