Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE: A desert tortoise moves through the Muddy Mountains Wilderness in Nevada. (Scott Smith/Getty Images) Off-roading is now ...

For nearly 30 years, thousands of people would stop every year at the old gas station turned jerky shop on Highway 395 on their way to Mammoth from Los Angeles. It was hard to miss Gus’ Fresh Jerky, ...

Off-roading is now off-limits on routes spanning 1 million acres of the western Mojave Desert after a six-year legal battle over whether adding thousands of miles of new dirt roads would harm the ...