Environmental groups have been butting heads with local residents, off-roaders, and the Bureau of Land Management, the federal agency that manages nearly a third of the western Mojave Desert, since ...

Off-road fans heading into California’s Mojave Desert soon might want to double-check their maps. A federal judge has ordered the closure of roughly 2,000 miles (3,200 km) of off-highway vehicle ...

A judge ruled that federal land managers didn’t show how they minimized impacts to vulnerable species in an off-road vehicle management plan in the Western Mojave Desert. The area is home to the ...

A federal judge has made 2,200 miles of Western Mojave Desert trails off-limits to off-roading bikers and drivers, in the name of preserving the threatened desert tortoise. The Bureau of Land ...

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 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A federal judge ordered the Bureau of Land Management to close off-road vehicle trails that cut through tortoise ...

Google Maps is a fantastic tool for people who want to drive to an unfamiliar location, but it can also become the opposite due to the smallest error in the routing ...

This remote canyon in California features red rock cliffs, a rare surface stretch of the Mojave River, slot canyon hikes, and ...

Imagine a scene in a movie about the Old West, where the characters are in a desperate search for water in the desert, stumbling across a barren landscape under a scorching sun, and carrying an empty ...