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

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.

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 ...

The desert tortoise was first listed as threatened in 1990.

A federal judge has ordered off-highway vehicle riders to steer clear of more than 2,200 miles of proposed routes through ...

In this April 4, 2008 file photo, Marines wait for a desert tortoise to move off the road at the U.S. Marine Corps' Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms, Calif. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File) (CN ...

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

The Donald Trump administration has once again approved the building of a controversial highway in southwest Utah. The 4.5-mile stretch of road, called the Northern Corridor Highway, would skirt the ...

ST. GEORGE — Federal land managers have signed off on a controversial road project in southwest Utah in a move celebrated by local leaders and lambasted by conservation groups that have protested the ...

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 ...