The flawed installation of fences intended to protect the Mojave Desert Tortoise from highway traffic cost taxpayers more than $700,000 to correct, and faulty culvert drainage killed one of the ...

Mojave National Preserve officials are continuing their efforts to protect endangered desert tortoises from vehicles with the installation of dozens of miles of roadside "tortoise fencing" in tortoise ...

BARSTOW • San Bernardino County will soon be taking bids for the addition of tortoise fencing at the Barstow Sanitary Landfill in an effort to prevent threatened desert tortoises from wandering into ...

Long before Southern Nevada built its winding highways, desert tortoises roamed freely without consequence. For these federally protected animals, crossing the street without a dedicated path could ...

A desert tortoise attempts to cross the road in southern California. (J. Mark Peaden/UC Davis) Desert tortoises pace back and forth and can overheat by roadside fencing meant to help them, according ...