Already, the Twentynine Palms combat center has a head start program, in which they work with UCLA to identify and monitor tortoise burrows, Murray said. Once females lay eggs, scientists incubate ...

Twentynine Palms, CA, Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - The Tortoise Research and Captive Rearing Site rescues vulnerable tortoises from combat training areas throughout the vast Marine Corps base.

Richard Lee is baking bagels under the name 29 Loaves in the Mojave Desert. "I don't know how I went from tech to baking," he tells columnist David Allen, "but it's very exciting." ...

The new designation is a “force-multiplier” for Marine Air Ground Combat Center 29 Palms and the other Mojave Desert military installations supporting conservation efforts in range resilience ...

From desert coffee shops to design-forward shops and soulful lounges, the Joshua Tree-based woodworker shares the places that ...

In just two to three hours, roughly 1.88 inches of rain fell on Twentynine Palms, which normally gets 3.87 inches in a year, she said.

A five-minute drive from the north entrance of Joshua Tree, Reset debuted as the first newly built hotel in the Mojave Desert ...

While some Americans openly rejoice in the death of Osama bin Laden, there’s a more somber response in the Mojave Desert town of Twentynine Palms, home to the largest US Marine base in the world.

The city of Twentynine Palms is home to a vibrant intersection of communities. It’s an entry point for Joshua Tree National Park, the edge of the Mojave desert, a stone’s throw away from Palm ...

To stop. This is the Mojave National Preserve — 1.6 million acres of desert made strange and sacred by lava flows, fossil beds, abandoned mines, creosote, Joshua trees.

The hatchlings are reared in captivity until they reach a certain length — Twentynine Palms uses a threshold of 110 millimeters, or about 4 inches long, which can take between seven and nine ...