To celebrate the final weekend of National Park Week, we"re at Joshua Tree National Park in southeastern California, about a three-hour drive from Los Angeles. This 1,235-square-mile stretch of land where the Mojave and Colorado Deserts converge was declared a national monument in 1936, then was redesignated a national park in 1994. That status protects a wide variety of plant and animal life, including the eponymous Joshua tree, which can be found growing mostly in the hills on the Mojave side of the park.
A garden of prickly delights
Today in History
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Castle on a hill
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Alaska moose
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It’s World Migratory Bird Day
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Happy Juneteenth!
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Hanging out on a limb
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Looking down on the Otter
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3,000 years of history
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The Wave at Coyote Buttes
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Black History Month
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Beautiful baobabs
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The parenting of a piping plover
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Happy Halloween!
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Iceberg off the coast of Antarctica
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In the footsteps of Leopold Bloom
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Dunes at White Sands National Park, New Mexico
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A cry for independence
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Rethymno, Crete, Greece
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Waimea Canyon and Waipoo Falls, Kauai, Hawaii
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Happy Independence Day!
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Black History Month
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Playa del Amor, Marietas Islands, Mexico
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East River crossing
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International Haiku Poetry Day
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Azaleas blooming on Hwangmaesan Mountain, South Korea
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A rest stop for the birds
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Kings of the Kalahari
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Apples ready for harvest in Minnesota
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Can you see the family resemblance?
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Mute swans
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All eyes on moths
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