Thousands of years ago, a desert-hardy plant, now quintessentially Southern Utahn, moved from what is now northern New Mexico across the Mojave Desert. And a native species of rodent genetically ...

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 ...

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 ...

Find out more about how native plants react to increased levels of carbon dioxide and nonnative plant invaders at a lecture entitled "Plant Interactions in the Mojave Desert When Exposed to ...

Asbell, the director of plant conservation for the land trust, had the idea in 2016 to start collecting and cataloguing seeds from the unique plant life in southern California’s Mojave Desert.

From the archive: This story originally published in The Desert Sun in 2019. On this south-facing slope in Morongo Valley there is a forest of very old Yucca schidigera, known as the Mojave yucca.

In desert ecosystems, plant species coexist by growing and flowering at different times, cued by rainfall and other triggers.

They are searching for a plant called erodium texanum, (common names Texas stork’s bill or heronbill), a type of herb native to California. More specifically, they are looking for its seeds.

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