SHOSHONE, Calif. — Some landowners would be alarmed — even angry — to discover a federally protected species on their property. Not Susan Sorrells. The fourth-generation owner of this tiny tourist ...

Rare marshes critical to voles’ survival are degraded and dying Mojave Desert population down to about 500 amid climate change UC Davis has captive breeding program, but it's not enough Despite the ...

Seven years of carefully planned habitat restoration on private land in the Mojave Desert have yielded hope for the persistence of the endangered Amargosa vole. In early August, a photograph from a ...

Amargosa vole. (Don Preisler, UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine via U.S. Bureau of Land Management.) LOS ANGELES (CN) — The endangered Amaragosa vole, of which just a few hundred survive along a ...

SHOSHONE, Calif. — The Davis Dozen is on the loose. Shortly after sunrise Friday morning, 12 endangered Amargosa voles raised at the University of California in Davis were set free in the waist-high ...

A tiny vole in the Mojave Desert has been brought back from the brink of extinction thanks to conservation efforts. The fluffy creature is known as the Amargosa vole, and the small rodents are so ...

LOS ANGELES— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management today to protect highly imperiled Amargosa voles from unmanaged recreational use within their federally ...

Amargosa voles are among the most critically endangered mammals in North America, but the vole’s luck is changing thanks to the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, which has produced the first ...

A tiny, mouse-like species on the brink of extinction in the Mojave Desert could be making a comeback after years of intensive habitat restoration and conservation efforts in California. However, a ...

“What exactly is a vole?” is a question I hear a lot, whenever I tell people that I love my work on behalf of the Amargosa vole. Well, voles are rodents like mice but slightly larger; they’re stocky, ...

TECOPA, Calif.— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal notice today of its intent to sue the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to protect ...

Migrating birds probably did it. That’s what UC Davis epidemiology professor Janet Foley says after DNA detective work confirmed that a disease-carrying tick only found in the southeastern United ...