Millions of acres of the Mojave Desert, home to five military bases and at least 40 protected species, including the desert tortoise and Joshua trees, will have more protection thanks to a ...

More A trip to the Mojave Desert strengthened their resolve. "When I’m traveling, I don’t pay attention to the location as much as the architecture," Julie says. "We stayed in a beautiful ...

Millions of acres in the Mojave Desert have been designated as a Sentinel Landscape, meaning more will be done to balance military training with protecting listed plants and animals such as the ...

Flames also avoided the Ivanpah Valley, home to a large population of the threatened desert tortoise. “It stayed out of our best tortoise habitat, thankfully,” Hughson said.

Then in the summer of 2020, a wildfire sparked by lightning torched through more than 43,000 acres of Cima Dome in the desert, and with it an estimated 1.3 million Joshua trees — about a quarter ...

6. EcoTech’s shipping container home in the Mojave desert Using five 20-foot long shipping containers, EcoTech constructed a custom, 2,300 square foot home for a client in the heart of the Mojave.

Recent estimates indicate there are about 100,000 desert tortoises remaining in the Mojave and Sonoran deserts. As late as the 1950s, the population averaged more than 200 adult tortoises per ...

In the insufferably arch neo-noir Western Mojave, Garrett Hedlund — a vision in sexy boots, artfully disheveled tresses and a morose green gaze — ventures into the desert, there to brood on ...

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