The project is crucial for conserving the Mojave desert tortoise, a threatened species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, ...

and over 240 naturally occurring seeps and springs that provide sustenance for a wide variety of desert wildlife species. The preserve is a recreational haven for hikers, backpackers, bicyclists, ...

Signed 25 years before our visit, in October 1994, the act determined the fate of 9.6 million acres of Southern California desert, establishing 69 new wilderness areas, expanding Joshua Tree and Death ...

Tara Cornelisse, an entomologist and senior scientist at the Center. “These bees may be tiny but they play an important role in maintaining the health of the unique Mojave Desert ecosystem.” The Fish ...

Amid the vast Mojave Desert sits an oasis, one brimming with rare flora and fauna that exists nowhere else on earth Nevada’s 23,000-acre Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge is a world of clear ...

including a vast network of off-road vehicle routes in the West Mojave Desert. The activities are driving desert tortoises and other threatened and endangered wildlife toward extinction. “I’m grateful ...

From the carved amphitheater at Cedar Breaks National Monument to the sandy trails in the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve, Southern ...

22, 2005, as Microsoft launched the Xbox 360 at a blockbuster "Zero Hour" event in the Mojave Desert. "Our goal with the launch event is to reward the gamer by creating the ultimate Xbox 360 oasis ...

An unremarkable desert expanse of creosote and ... the monument helps to preserve a wildlife corridor that stretches from Mojave National Preserve to the Colorado Plateau. Still, recreation ...