Another effort to help save the Mohave desert tortoise is being proposed, this time with the proposed removal of several hundred burros from within the Tass-Gold Butte Herd Management Area 60 ...

Adopting a desert tortoise is a long-term commitment as the tortoises can live for 80 to 100 years. The tortoises are herbivores and eat a diet of plants.

Federal judge rules off-road plan illegal, environmentalists see victory for desert tortoise A Tuesday ruling finds 6,000 miles of dirt roads set aside for motorized recreation ignored studies ...

Mojave Max, the desert tortoise, has emerged from his burrow in southern Nevada, signaling the start of warmer weather for the area. Skip to content. KOLR - OzarksFirst.com.

PICACHO, Ariz. (AP) — How long does it take a large desert tortoise to get to the other side of a southern Arizona highway? It’s still a mystery, after a ...

C A I R O, Egypt, Aug. 31 -- A tortoise laboriously pulls itself up toa thorny shrub in the arid desert, slowly plucking at theplant’s stems in an attempt to suck out any moisture. The barren ...

PICACHO, Ariz. (AP) — How long does it take a large desert tortoise to get to the other side of a southern Arizona highway? It’s still a mystery, after a state Department of Public Safety ...

An unidentified driver and Arizona Department of Public Safety Sgt. Steven Sekrecki hold a rescued a sulcata tortoise that was trying to cross Interstate 10 near Picacho on July 30.