A federal judge has ordered the closure of thousands of miles of off-road vehicle routes in the Mojave Desert following a ...

A federal judge ordered the closure of 2,200 miles of off-road vehicle routes in the Mojave Desert to protect endangered ...

The Bureau of Land Management was ordered to close down popular off-roading trails in parts of the Mojave in order to protect the imperiled desert tortoise.

Earlier this month, a federal judge ordered a sweeping shutdown in the Mojave Desert, closing thousands of miles of trails.

There’s a time and a place for almost everything, including off-road driving. After a recent legal ruling, however, there’s one place where that is distinctly not the case: a sizable stretch of the ...

Mojave Desert tortoises are endangered. Before they disappear completely, officials have to do something to protect them.

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) SAN ...

A federal judge has partly ruled in favor of environmental groups challenging what one called a vast "spaghetti" network of popular off-road vehicle routes in the Mojave Desert, which they charge are ...

Mojave National Preserve officials are continuing their efforts to protect endangered desert tortoises from vehicles with the installation of dozens of miles of roadside "tortoise fencing" in tortoise ...

SAN FRANCISCO— A judge has rejected federal agencies’ approval of activities in the California Desert Conservation Area, including a vast network of off-road vehicle routes in the West Mojave Desert.