For many of us in the Coachella Valley, it can be easy to take our amazing desert lands for granted. Within a short drive we have great access to several national parks, wilderness areas and other ...

October, I was pretty excited to put on my snowshoes. I made one trip out to Todd Lake from Dutchman Flat before the […] ...

Ending a bitter feud in the rush to develop solar farms, BrightSource Energy Inc. on Thursday said it had scrapped a controversial plan to build a renewable energy facility in the eastern Mojave ...

The Jacumba Wilderness sat largely protected along the U.S.-Mexico border in southwestern Imperial County as recently as last spring. Ocotillos provided pops of bright green that spiraled up from the ...

In mid-October, thousands of wilderness enthusiasts gathered in Albuquerque, N.M., for a national conference celebrating the 50th anniversary of one of America’s great ideas, the Wilderness Act. Not ...

For most people, the tiny town of Desert Center, situated on the I-10 corridor in a remote expanse of eastern Riverside County’s Chuckwalla Valley, is just a lifeless blip on the map, a place close to ...

Edward Abbey roamed what is today Arches National Park as a seasonal ranger in the 1950s, treasuring the isolation and the harsh but fragile landscape that surrounded him. His observations and ...

It's Passover and as is traditional, many Jews are eating matzo for the week. But in Southern California, a group called Wilderness Torah is not only reflecting on the Passover story but going into ...

“Desert X,” an exhibition for which 16 participating artists have created site-specific works, calls us into the desert, a space typically perceived as a locus of artistic inspiration. Spread ...

Stay on top of what’s happening in the Bay Area with essential Bay Area news stories, sent to your inbox every weekday. The Bay Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra brings you context and ...