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 ...

But Max isn’t the only famous tortoise in Nevada. NV Energy, Opportunity Village and even the Governor’s Mansion have adopted tortoises who serve as little mascots for the organizations.

Groundhog Day marks the start of Mojave Max watch. The desert tortoise mascot is Clark County's official prognosticator, but it'll be a while before he emerges.

As part of a planned 2,400-acre solar project southwest of Pahrump, developer Candela Renewables will temporarily relocate 114 adult desert tortoises — a species, listed as threatened under the ...

Desert tortoises have lived in the deserts of California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah since the Pleistocene. In the early years of the 20th century, they still thrived within the Southwest's arid ...

Meanwhile, environmentalists continue to blame the Mojave Desert plant for killing thousands of birds and tortoises ... federal land near the California-Nevada border. Though it was hailed ...

The tortoise became part of the county’s $65,000 ... director of programs for the nonprofit Get Outdoors Nevada. The nonprofit, which administers Mojave Max programming in schools, struggled ...

RANGE: Tortoises living in southern California, southern Nevada, southwestern Utah, and extreme northern Arizona comprise the Mojave population of desert tortoise. The Sonoran population is located in ...