Good news for desert tortoises: Good news for desert tortoises: Stretch of Mojave Desert gets federal protections.
A desert tortoise in the Desert Tortoise Research Natural Area in California City in October 2022. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
A 3.5-million-acre swath of Mojave Desert between Ridgecrest and the Morongo Basin has received a new federal designation that advocates hope will...