A desert native, and high school biology teacher is on a mission to connect her high school students with the beauty and ...

Read about a new Mojave Plant Seed & Seedling Guide created by DRI's Tiffany Pereira, a scientist and illustrator. Pereira ...

has discovered a remarkable survival strategy—a unique seed dormancy cycling mechanism in two desert ephemeral plants, Alyssum linifolium and Tetracme quadricornis. This study, published in the ...

Grazing animals can destroy many desert plants and animals ... grooves in the ground to retain rainfall and trap windblown seeds.

Teaching High Desert students about the use of native plants in landscaped yards has ... my students attempt to grow creosote bushes from seeds. We will begin this in our classroom and I hope ...