The Mojave Desert is a hot spot for off-roading. Here's why a judge shut down more than 2,200 miles of trails

The Bureau of Land Management was ordered to close down popular off-roading trails in parts of the Mojave in order to protect the imperiled desert tortoise.

A highway through tortoise habitat? What the Northern Corridor’s revival means for southern Utah

The feds and environmental groups reignite a decades-long fight over how much development a conservation area — and the desert tortoise it was created to protect — can withstand as southwest Utah ...
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Spring hasn't sprung, not before this famous desert tortoise says so

MOJAVE MAXINE? This sweet celebrity has the sort of name that lends a headline or magazine cover with instant pizzazz, but here's the twist: She's never going to be followed by the paparazzi, her ...

Cape Coral wildlife group known for burrowing owls, gopher tortoises hosting youth event

Cape group is hosting youth event from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Dec. 6 at the Cape Coral-Lee County Library, according to ...