The Beating Heart of the Mojave Desert
If passed, the California Desert Protection Act will protect over one million acres of the Mojave Desert’s last wild areas, with the creation of two new National Monuments: the Mojave Trails National Monument on former railroad lands adjoining historic U.S. Rt. 66, and the Sand to Snow National Monument, which would include areas from the desert floor of the Coachella Valley to the high country of the San Bernardino Mountains.
Survival of the Desert Tortoise
Dr. Ron Swaisgood of the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research and Zoological Society, joins Tommy on Treehuggers International to talk about his new position heading up the research portion of the San Diego Zoo’s ongoing Desert Tortoise Recovery Project in Clark County, Nevada.
