Get away from it all and enjoy easy hikes, nature, and history in an unexpected place: the Desert National Wildlife Refuge ...

Disturbing a desert tortoise in its native habitat is not only risky for the tortoise, it's illegal, state officials say.

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.

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 ...