By adopting MOJAVE DESERT ANIMALS you can help preserve ANIMAL habitat in the Mojave Desert.

The Quail Mountain Project

The Quail Mountain Project is a fundraising campaign led by the Mojave Desert Land Trust to permanently preserve 955 acres of rare wildlife habitat and a beautiful vista in Joshua Tree, CA.

Help Save Wildlife Habitat

You can help save wildlife habitat by adopting one or more of the Quail Mountain animals. The Land Trust is working to save Quail Mountain’s watersheds- the vital streams that flow to lower elevations so that both animals and plants can survive.

Adopt an Animal Today

The Quail Mountain area is home to many native desert animals including the threatened desert tortoise, bobcat, badger, big horn sheep, and coyote and is an important nesting area for a vast array of birds. Wildlife travels into and out of the park via a beautiful, pristine wildlife corridor that is currently threatened by development. This is your opportunity to save our native wildlife, their precious water sources and help ensure their survival into the future.

Adopt an animal of your choice:

You will receive an Adoption Certificate and membership in Mojave Desert Land Trust, a 501(c)(3) public charity. Donations are
tax-deductible.

To make a general donation of your choice, please use the button below.

 

Get Adobe Flash player Most desert animals have evolved both behavioral and physiological mechanisms to solve the heat and water problems the desert environment creates.

Coyote
The coyote is a member of the dog family. In size and shape the coyote is like a medium-sized Collie dog, but its tail is round and bushy and is carried straight out below the level of its back.

Primarily nocturnal, Coyotes travel in packs of closely related adults, yearlings and young, along fixed trails. Territorial ranges up to twelve miles around the den.

Adoption Fee $25.00

Bobcat
The most common wildcat in North America, the bobcat is named for its short, bobbed tail. They are medium-sized cats and are slightly smaller but similar in appearance to their cousin, the lynx. Their coats vary in color from shades of beige to brown fur with spotted or lined markings in dark brown or black.

Elusive and solitary predator who is most active at twilight and dawn. Lives in well defined territories with numerous places of shelter. Threatened by persecution and habitat destruction.

Adoption Fee $50.00

Desert Tortoise
The Desert Tortoise is able to live where ground temperature may exceed 140 degrees F.

Threatened species lives in burrows near sandy flats to rocky foothills. Strong site fidelity where they know their food, water and mineral sources.

Adoption Fee $75.00

Bighorn Sheep
The natural range of Ovis canadensis was formerly in the Rocky Mountains from southern Canada to Colorado, but is now reduced to areas where small bands are protected by inaccessible habitat or by refuges. The desert subspecies (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) ranges from Nevada and California to west Texas and south into Mexico. Another rare group inhabits the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.

Endangered species. Small scattered bands of sheep climb the steep, rocky terrain with speed and agility. Habitat preservation is essential for their survival.

Adoption Fee $100.00

 

Adopt a Quail Mountain animal here...

Please choose:

Give this fun and personalized "adopt an animal" gift to a loved one. Please fill out the gift recipient info below only if you are giving your adoption as a gift.

Make donation in honor of:
Mailing Address or E-mail address:
(help us save trees by sending the certificate and membership via e-mail)

Recipient will receive membership to the Mojave Desert Land Trust and an adoption certificate!

Your donations will help preserve sensitive Mojave Desert animal habitat.

Volunteer

Calendar

Subscribe to our Newsletter

Enter your email address here and we will add you to our mailing list:

MDLT does do not sell or trade any of our e-mail or address lists to other sources; your information is safe with us.

newsletter signup

© 2009 Mojave Desert Land Trust. 6393 Sunset Road, Joshua Tree, CA 92252 • 760.366-5440 • Fax 760.366.9103 • info@mojavedesertlandrust.org

Slideshow photos by Vera Topinka, Diana Shay Diehl and Alma Allen