and many other rare plants and animals adapted to live in harsh desert environments. Congress designated the area in 1976, and the 1994 California Desert Protection Act further increased protection by ...

Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals ... Many desert plants can live for hundreds of years. But in California, the iconic Joshua ...

A desert native, and high school biology teacher is on a mission to connect her high school students with the beauty and ...

“The Western Mojave’s desert tortoises are sliding toward extinction, so it’s long past time for the Bureau of Land Management to curb these vehicles’ threats to the tortoises and all the rare plants ...

In Riverside County, Oswit Land Trust was awarded $1.5 million for 642 acres in the foothills of the San Jacinto Mountains, preserving healthy coastal sage scrub, grasslands, and other habitats ...