In the Eastern Mojave, the heavy winter rains stoked the growth of native grasses, including big galleta, said ecologist Laura Cunningham, California’s director at the Western Watersheds Project ...

The Mojave National Preserve has been seeing an increase in fire frequency over the past decade due to a combination of wet winters and increasing levels of invasive grasses, fire officials say on ...

The Mojave National Preserve has been seeing an increase in fire frequency over the past decade due to a combination of wet winters and increasing levels of invasive grasses, fire officials say on ...

The eastern Mojave Desert region saw a population decline of 10%, or 5,000 tortoises, during the same time period. The Colorado Desert saw a decrease of 17%, representing about 13,000 tortoises.

More than 77,000 acres of desert landscape have burned over the past few days in the York Fire, the largest on record for the Mojave National Preserve, as high temperatures and strong winds drove ...

Invasive grasses likely spread York fire faster, officials say. Besides a wet winter, more invasive plant species in the Mojave National Preserve are making wildfires more likely there, the ...

The Mojave National Preserve has been seeing an increase in fire frequency over the past decade due to a combination of wet winters and increasing levels of invasive grasses, fire officials say on ...

Kelly Fuhrmann, Acting Superintendent, Mojave National Preserve: It's a very special place in a lot of ways, being a desert ecosystem. The vegetation assemblages are quite diverse, although in a ...

Although often dry in hot months, the Mojave River provided consistent water and grass along 127 miles of desert. Water was easily reachable in the dry sections of the river by digging down a few ...

The Mojave National Preserve has been seeing an increase in fire frequency over the past decade due to a combination of wet winters and increasing levels of invasive grasses, fire officials say on ...