Tag: Mojave Desert tortoise

The Bureau of Land Management reversed its recent decision to allow a rancher to move cattle through Mojave desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) habitat on federal lands in the California Desert...

When scientists reintroduce animals to augment populations, they often take individuals from areas close to the reintroduction site. “There’s this idea to not move animals outside of their native population...

A controversial provision in the Fiscal Year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act would grant the U.S. Air Force control over an additional 840,000 acres of the Desert National Wildlife Refuge...

At a Marine Corps base in the Mojave Desert, biologists were finding that as ravens (Corvus corax) were increasing, endangered Mojave desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) were declining. Historically, ravens had...

Roads fragmenting the threatened Mojave Desert tortoise’s habitat put the slow animal in danger of being run over by whooshing vehicles. But roadside fencing installed to keep it out of...