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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Today is World Refugee Day
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Penguin Awareness Day
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Indigenous Peoples Day
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Yi Peng Festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand
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Pumpkin field, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Swim city
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The parenting of a piping plover
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A monastery in the mountain
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Native American Heritage Month
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Amelia Earhart
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Storm rolls over the grasslands
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Celebrating all things Austen
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Point Reyes National Seashore
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