It's that time of year again: warmer weather is back, things are greening up or flowering, and it's time for the annual ...

Teaching High Desert students about the use of native plants in landscaped yards has many benefits. First of all, native shrubs like creosote, rubber rabbitbrush, Mormon tea and California ...

Native plant species are at home in local climates and soils, do not interfere with local ecosystems and need less water than exotic species.

Many desert plants can live for hundreds of years. But in California, the iconic Joshua tree—the oldest found was 1,000 years old—may not survive a hotter climate, scientists warn. If they don ...

“The Mojave Desert is one of North America’s largest remaining areas of connected habitat, and the BLM’s management decisions have consequences,” said Nick Jensen, conservation program director at the ...

American Indians were the first humans in the California desert. In fact, native Mojaves, Chemehuevis, and Quechans lived there for thousands of years before European explorers set foot in North ...