Joshua Tree National Park uses a database with several different attributes and metrics that helps staff map out the vandalism and prioritize their response. For example, if a 5-foot-tall piece of ...

The Joshua tree, a yucca, lives for an average of 150 years. During a partial US government shutdown in 2019, a small number of the park’s eponymous trees were destroyed by vandals ...

Dec 2024 A proposed Chuckwalla National Monument near Joshua Tree National Park would protect the threatened Mojave Desert tortoise and help ... How Dirty Air is Harming America’s National Parks ...

The area that is now Joshua Tree National Park wasn’t always a desert. During the Great Ice Age, also known as the Pleistocene Epoch, there were rivers and lakes as well as Columbian mammoths ...

COACHELLA, Calif.— The Center for Biological Diversity joined local Tribes, businesses, communities and conservation groups today to urge President Biden to establish Chuckwalla National Monument and ...

An enduring symbol of the Mojave Desert, Yucca brevifolia might be the namesake of this national park in the desert east of Los Ange­les. Still, it’s far from the only thing to see at Joshua Tree.