In 1976, Congress designated the 25-million-acre region of desert stretching from the Mexican border north to Death Valley and the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains as the California Desert Conservation ...

Deserts are part of a wider class of regions called drylands ... with fast-growing grasses. Many desert plants can live for hundreds of years. But in California, the iconic Joshua tree—the ...

Other resident bald eagles have been spotted around the High Desert region, including Spring Valley Lake and Mojave Narrows. Wildflower blooms aren't the only thing the spring season seems to have ...

Covering more than 25 million acres — about a fourth of California — the geologically diverse California Desert Conservation Area includes sand dunes, canyons, dry lakes, 90 mountain ranges, and 65 ...