Thanks Wizard - I've been wondering about how bought this land as I noticed the For Sale signs were gone some time ago, and saw it was listed as sold when I looked it up on real estate websites. If only I had a million bucks. The Mojave Desert Land Trust group has a good and active Instagram account where they post their activities and preservation projects, I had not seen a post about this yet however.
https://www.instagram.com/mojavedesertlandtrust/