Covering more than 25 million acres — about a fourth of California — the geologically diverse ... hundreds of miles of so-called “open wash zones” for off-road vehicles in desert tortoise habitat in ...

California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection officials on Monday unveiled updated fire hazard maps for the High Desert and other portions of Southern California The new Cal Fire rankings, the ...

American Indians were the first humans in the California desert ... The 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s saw a dramatic explosion of desert-town populations as well as off-road vehicle use. In 1976, Congress ...

California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection officials on Monday unveiled updated fire hazard maps for the High Desert and other portions of Southern California The new Cal Fire rankings ...