Indio's budget for public art in fiscal year 2022-2023, ending on June 30, is $545,223 and a total of $410,000 was approved for art projects below. ‘Desert Tortoise’ ...

Artist Chris Peterson with Utah Wildlife Walls was commissioned to paint a tortoise mural on the wall of the Station 2 Bar by Zion Brewery, St. George, Tuesday.

Desert tortoises have temperature-dependent sex determination: Cooler temperatures result in male clutches and warmer temperatures result in female clutches. Tool is playing Phoenix in early '24.

The desert tortoise had previously been classified as "threatened" by the California Endangered Species Act in 1989, as well as by the federal Endangered Species Act of 1990.

"The desert tortoise is in terrible shape, especially in the West Mojave, where it's in the worst shape. And it's partly due to this kind of habitat loss and the constant fragmentation," Belenky said.

A desert tortoise, which was listed as threatened in 1990 and can live for 50 to 80 years, walks near a flowering Schott’s indigobush in the proposed Chuckwalla National Monument on April 25 ...

CALIFORNIA CITY, Calif. (KERO) — The 66th annual Desert Tortoise Days in California City scheduled for this weekend is being postponed due to expected high winds, according to the city’s park ...

Officials in Nevada said a desert tortoise named Mojave Max has emerged from his winter burrow at a nature preserve in Las Vegas. Max made his appearance at 3:40 p.m. Monday.

Another effort to help save the Mohave desert tortoise is being proposed, this time with the proposed removal of several hundred burros from within the Tass-Gold Butte Herd Management Area 60 ...

The Mojave desert tortoise is listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Their population is declining. Holcomb showed FOX5 broken shells from tortoises hit by cars on Nevada roadways.