PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — A parcel of land that is prime habitat for the so-called teddy bear cactus has been purchased for a Mojave Desert conservation organization. An anonymous donor bought the ...

Roughly 740,000 acres of the Mojave Desert comprise California's newest national monument in Riverside and Imperial counties. Chuckwalla National Monument was established in mid-January by ...

Public land in Mojave Desert just named as California's newest national monument The new monument was established in mid-January by outgoing President Joe Biden as one of his last executive ...

Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants that have ...

He demarcates further an empire of cactus: “At 106,000 square miles (11,300 in California), the low desert of the Sonoran Desert, of which the Colorado is a subset, is more associated with ...

The blading of this site will also destroy 132,679 Mojave spineflower plants; 196 silver cholla cacti, 69 Barstow woolly sunflowers and creosote. Clearly, this is a story that doesn’t end as ...