And few places embrace spring's sweet start like The Living Desert in Palm Desert, the celebrated home to Mojave Maxine, the spring-predicting desert tortoise. And starting on March 20 ...

Mojave Max came from the mind of Shauna Walch ... “I really started to think about my own experience, and that real living desert experience, and I thought, it needs to be the desert tortoise ...

It's important to note that desert tortoises in California and the Southwest are two separate species. In a 2011 study, scientists declared that tortoises living north and west of the Colorado River — ...

Seventy endangered Mojave desert tortoises are adjusting ... an effort headed by the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance and The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens. The tortoises emerged from their winter ...

These intelligent birds have experienced an 800% population boom in the western Mojave Desert over the ... That's how I became involved with The Living Desert's innovative "Time to Talk Trash ...

Let nature be your guide as you immerse in the beauty of our desert wilds. Here are six places to enjoy the outdoors.

Despite their dainty appearance, desert kit foxes are hardy animals, well adapted for living in the hot, harsh desert habitat from which they never ... You can see the keyhole-shaped entrances of kit ...