Roughly 740,000 acres of the Mojave Desert comprise California's newest national monument in Riverside and Imperial counties. Chuckwalla National Monument was established in mid-January by outgoing ...

The Sonoran Desert lands were acquired with funds from the Land and Water Conservation Fund. A 20-acre parcel of private land ...

Saguaro National Park is expanding once again, thanks to a new acquisition by the Trust for Public Land (TPL) in partnership ...

In a small room tucked into the corner of the Mojave Desert Land Trust’s headquarters in Joshua Tree, three nondescript white refrigerators hold the future fate of the desert landscape. The ...

The Mojave Desert Land Trust announced all-round conservation wins for the California desert in its 2023 annual report. The nonprofit organization’s report also outlined “bold action” to preserve two ...

The Mojave Desert Land Trust has announced members of a new executive team to lead the organization. Cody Hanford and Kelly Herbinson will serve as joint executive directors, sharing the overall ...

NEVADA (KTNV) — Conservationists and Native Americans are fighting to protect land east of the Mojave Desert in Southern Clark County. Potential development in the area has alarmed Native Americans ...

A 3.5-million-acre swath of Mojave Desert between Ridgecrest and the Morongo Basin has received a new federal designation that advocates hope will help protect vulnerable wildlife like the Mojave ...

A lot has changed in the Morongo Basin over the past 15 years. Joshua Tree National Park’s annual visitation has increased from around 1.2 million people in 2006 to nearly 3 million people in 2019.