As firefighters battle a massive wildfire in the eastern Mojave Desert, national park officials and ecologists are preparing for habitat losses that are likely to alter the landscape forever ...

The proposed Rough Hat Clark County Solar Project would take up 2,400 acres of public land in the Pahrump Valley. The area is home to the federally protected desert tortoise.

A 3.5-million-acre swath of Mojave Desert, between Ridgecrest and the Morongo Basin, has been named a sentinel landscape, a federally led effort to promote sustainable land-use near military ...

The proposed Rough Hat Clark County Solar Project would take up 2,400 acres of public land in the Pahrump Valley. The area is home to the federally protected desert tortoise.

The Mojave Desert Land Trust is working to scout, catalogue, collect and preserve millions of seeds from 250 species and counting in a race to save an ecosystem.

A desert tortoise in the Mojave Desert near Kramer Junction. Located on BLM land near the Highway 58, a biologist estimated it to be 50 years or older. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times ...

The fire is also burning through critical habitat for the desert tortoise, which is listed as a threatened species. Where things stand The boundaries of the York Fire as Sunday.

St. George • After nearly three decades of concerted efforts to save them, the Mojave Desert tortoise in southern Utah is more threatened than ever. In 1990, the Mojave Desert tortoise was ...

The eastern Mojave Desert region saw a population decline of 10%, or 5,000 tortoises, during the same time period. The Colorado Desert saw a decrease of 17%, representing about 13,000 tortoises.

The Mojave desert tortoise faces multiple threats to its survival, including habitat loss driven by development, military training and base expansion, off-highway vehicle use and livestock grazing.