While driving through the California desert, you may come across derelict shacks spotting the landscape. These homesteads, called jackrabbits, were built by people laying claim to plots of desert land ...

“One cannot expect too much for five dollars,” Catherine Venn noted in July 1950 for Randall Henderson’s Desert Magazine. One would certainly not expect five acres of land for five dollars, but that’s ...

Biologists suggest that there are some 457 species of mammals that make the diverse ecological systems of North America their homes. But surely one of the more unique species of mammal found across ...

Temperatures had nudged into triple digits as my early morning hike along a sandy desert trail was nearly over. Ahead of me I could see two objects sticking up from the sand that didn’t quite seem to ...

HERE’S WHAT I’VE SEEN in my first three hours of jackrabbit hunting in the Sonoran Desert’s middle of nowhere: Stalking through the mesquite and paloverde, shimmying past the occasional stout ocotillo ...