A silver cholla cactus glows in the late afternoon light at the Mojave Desert Land Trust’s demonstration garden in Joshua Tree. It’s one of 50 native plants available for sale at the land ...

The Mojave Desert Land Trust is holding its largest-ever native plant sale in Joshua Tree. On Saturday, about 4,000 plants will be on sale, representingover 65 species, which are drought tolerant ...

Mojave yucca plants have a fascinating history in the desert that centers around bloom from April to June. With big crowd on hand, Rancho Mirage tops Palm Springs in CIF-SS playoffs ...

The Mojave Desert Land Trust permanently protected 6,385 acres of ecologically significant habitat, cleared several tons of trash, made 52 new seed collections, grew over 15,000 native plants for ...

Corina Godoy, lead production assistant for the Mojave Desert Land Trust, shows off three refrigerators that hold 210 different species of local plant seeds in Joshua Tree on Wednesday, Jun. 14, 2023.

The Mojave Desert Land Trust is working to scout, catalogue, collect and preserve millions of seeds from 250 species and counting in a race to save an ecosystem.

The Mojave Desert Land Trust’s seed bank started back in 2016 and initially was focused on growing native plants in the land trust’s nursery, which in turn were used for restoration or sold to ...

Local conservation groups react to the recent passing of the "One Big Beautiful Bill" Act, signed into law on July 4. They say it will "degrade" public lands.

The York Fire has burned more than 77,000 acres in the Mojave National Preserve as of Monday, making it the largest fire on record for the area. High temperatures and strong winds are helping ...

The tortoises pockmark the desert floor with burrows that other animals use for shelter, and disperse the seeds of native plants in their waste. “They’re influencing what else can exist on the ...