Colorado Desert

From the polo grounds of Coachella Valley to the farm fields in Imperial County, vast stretches of the harsh Colorado Desert have been converted into verdant fields thanks to fertilizer and irrigation.

In the subsequent three decades, the average the tortoise population has fallen by an average of 1% per year in locations like the Eastern Mojave and Colorado Desert recovery units.

The proposed monument would also help safeguard the ecologically rich but vulnerable Colorado Desert bioregion.

Here in the remote Colorado Desert, Lopez-Padilla, 28, and volunteers from his congregation have been driving the streets — passing out food and water, sometimes ferrying people to an air-conditioned church.

But when they got to the festival site in the Colorado Desert, they were told Ocean had injured his ankle and the ice was being melted.