The Howard Hughes Corp., developer of the award-winning master-planned community of Summerlin, recently built a community of a different kind. Working with two key contractors, Soil Tech and JC Co., ...

Red Rock has two new residents: Red Rock Roxie and a yet-to-be-named female tortoise. The nonprofit, Nevada-based Tortoise Group facilitated their adoption. Group member Sarah Mortimer brought them to ...

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The California Fish and Game Commission has formally recognized the Mojave desert tortoise as endangered. The designation, granted Thursday, is the latest in a long series of steps to try to protect ...

PANAMA CITY — “Walt” the gopher tortoise has twice escaped from his makeshift pen in Dale Colby’s office only to be found in another room. “He had pushed out the table,” said Colby, Panama City ...

Boulder, a Sulcata tortoise, didn’t roll but sort of crept along. It was a chilly, yet sunny afternoon in December, so the tortoise decided to poke his head out of his cozy wooden shed, testing the ...

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In this April 4, 2008 file photo, Marines wait for a desert tortoise to move off the road at the U.S. Marine Corps' Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms, Calif. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File) (CN ...

With openings in the fence and improved growth of plants vital for tortoise survival, solar farms in Nevada can provide better habitat than the surrounding desert. First Solar has found similar ...

ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) - After the Turkey Farm Road Fire fried nearly 12,000 acres north of St. George, Utah, in mid-July, including large swaths of the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area that was ...