The desert tortoise was first listed as threatened in 1990.

The judge issued an injunction at the request of environmental advocates who had prevailed two years ago on the merits of their lawsuit against the Bureau of Land Management.

Environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the federal government over its recent reapproval of the Northern Corridor, continuing a decades-long saga over highway through desert tortoise habitat.

A federal judge has prohibited off-road vehicle use in critical habitat for desert tortoises in California’s western Mojave ...

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Utah (ABC4) — With the Northern Corridor Highway approved in Southern Utah, some of Utah’s slower and smaller residents could be affected: tortoises. One of the biggest questions ...

Today’s anti-environmentalists follow tracks laid by the ‘Phantom Duck’ and the Barstow-to-Vegas Race, where thousands of bikers sped across open desert.

When driving through the Mojave National Preserve, one of the largest national park units in the contiguous United States, it’s easy to imagine that the entire vast desert landscape is a single piece ...

St. George • The on-and-off-again Northern Corridor Highway is officially back on again. Thirteen months after rejecting the right-of-way for the polarizing road, the Bureau of Land Management ...

Google Maps labels this stretch of the Mojave Desert as a rattlesnake habitat. But no official records, government databases, or maps recognize the name. What starts as a navigation oddity quickly ...