Desertification is a form of land degradation by which fertile land loses much of its biological — and economic — productivity, and becomes desert. Today, up to 40% of the world's land is ...

Recreation areas nearby will remain open to the public ... at the bureau’s California Desert District and Barstow Field offices. The Bureau of Land Management manages more than 245 million ...

In March 2015 — shortly after the close of the public comment period on the draft Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (DRECP) — the federal government announced that the Bureau of Land ...