It’s a brisk day in Johannesburg, a tiny mining town tucked among the Rand Mountains in the Mojave Desert. The landscape ... Those curious holes are abandoned mines, and they’re driving ...

In the map below ... The agency, she added, is “protecting desert landscapes by directing development to areas that are more degraded.” “The [Mojave] Desert has some of the most intact ...

When my wife and I hike around and explore Juniper Flats, in the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains and south of Apple Valley, we come across a fair number of abandoned mines. This has ...

But more than 50 percent of the work will be done at Death Valley National Park and the Mojave National Preserve, said Robert Bryson, Abandoned Mine Lands program manager for the Pacific West Region.