The Mojave Max Assembly Applications are currently closed and will reopen in the Fall next year. The Mojave Max Program provides educational assemblies in Fall and Winter of each year. The assemblies include appearances by a Ranger who discusses desert tortoise biology and conservation, an educator who discusses Mojave Desert weather which plays an important [...]
Mojave Max is a real live tortoise that lives at Springs Preserve. Every fall when the hot Las Vegas weather cools off, Max goes into his burrow to begin brumation (This is how Max hibernates). In the spring, when the weather begins to warm up, Max emerges. The person who guesses as closely as possible [...]
The Mojave Max Assembly Applications are currently open and will remain open until Friday, November 3, 2017. The Mojave Max Program provides educational assemblies in Fall and Winter of each year. The assemblies include appearances by a Ranger who discusses desert tortoise biology and conservation, an educator who discusses Mojave Desert weather which plays an [...]
The Mojave Max education program is moving to a new location at the Springs Preserve on September 26, 2017! Mojave Max, the famous southern Nevada desert tortoise, will enjoy the Springs Preserve’s 15-acre desert tortoise habitat which is located at the property’s northwest corner. Mojave Max is a live tortoise that serves as the [...]
Today A’myah Cunningham and her classmates from Roger Gehring Elementary School celebrated her win of the 2017 Mojave Max Emergence Contest with a field trip and pizza party to Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area to visit the live Mojave Max tortoise. Congratulations to A’myah!
Second-grade student A’myah Cunningham of Roger Gehring Elementary School is the winner of the 2017 Mojave Max Emergence Contest! A'myah will be recognized as the winner on Friday, April 21, 2017 at 8:00 am at Gehring Elementary School located at 1155 E. Richmar Avenue. A’myah and her classmates will enjoy a visit by the Mojave [...]
MOJAVE MAX EMERGED! April 5, 2017 at 12:40 pm
Check out our Mojave Max Education Manual on the Teacher's Page! It's loaded with all kinds of information and even has lessons that you can do in your classrooms!
We kicked off our Mojave Max Assembly season today at Gene Ward Elementary School. Today's assembly marks the first of a total of thirteen assemblies that we'll be conducting at various Clark County Schools throughout the valley. Assemblies are an opportunity to teach students more about desert conservation, desert tortoise biology and how to [...]
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