For some, Ivanpah now stands as a huge, shiny monument to wasted tax dollars and environmental damage. For others, failures ...

and many other rare plants and animals adapted to live in harsh desert environments. Congress designated the area in 1976, and the 1994 California Desert Protection Act further increased protection by ...

Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals ... Many desert plants can live for hundreds of years. But in California, the iconic Joshua ...

“The Western Mojave’s desert tortoises are sliding toward extinction, so it’s long past time for the Bureau of Land Management to curb these vehicles’ threats to the tortoises and all the rare plants ...

The region is the ancestral homeland of the Torres Martinez Desert ... the plants and animals and the visitors." The planned designations protect a combined 848,000 acres of lands in California.

Painted Canyon is home to a variety of animal and plant life like smoke trees, painted bats, bighorn sheep, and desert tortoises. The canyon is also a favorite of scientists hoping to understand ...

From hiking trails to giraffe feeding, watching wallabies or learning about wildlife, Southern California's Living Desert Zoo And Gardens has an adventure for everyone.