A student cinematographer was killed when an off-road vehicle full of young filmmakers rolled over in California sand dunes. Authorities say the group included the 29-year-old victim from Chapman ...

Without an incidental take permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, State Parks can't allow dune buggies and other off ...

Off-road riders at the Oceano Dunes recreation area "can and do drive through flocks of roosting snowy plovers," U.S.

A U.S. federal court ruled that the California Department of Parks and Recreation violated the Endangered Species Act by ...

California's coastal protection agency planned to close the Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area to off-roaders. A state court said it broke the law. Now, it's appealing that ruling, arguing ...

ASHLAND, Ore.— In response to a petition and lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today protected the sand dune phacelia as a threatened species under the ...

Death Valley’s temporary lake, fed by one powerful summer storm, is down to inches as it dwindles in the park’s Badwater Basin. But as it evaporates, other parts of the national park are reopening. In ...

Our two-person team loaded the car with a GPS, a drone, notebooks, sample bags, a trowel and a flat spatula lovingly called a scoopula. Then we drove 30 minutes in our rented truck from Yuma, Arizona, ...

“You look out over the rolling dunes, and there’s this feeling of peace and challenge,” says Matt Valantine, a dentist from St. George, Utah. “I don’t know if it’s the color, the expanse, or what it ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— Following a lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed today to protect the sand dune phacelia as threatened under the Endangered ...