Once dismissed as a gas stop for Joshua Tree, Twentynine Palms is becoming the high desert’s newest outpost for shopkeepers, ...

Before you set off on your next adventure to Joshua Tree National Park, learn which trails are the best ones to challenge ...

Dying Joshua Trees several weeks before a devastating wildfire torched an untold number of them in Mojave National Preserve. By 2099, 80% to 90% of Joshua tree habitat could be lost. (Robert Gauthier ...

The sun was low, the cactus shadows were lengthening and laughter rang out amid the Airstreams. Natalie Valdez, 36, and Clarence Tsay, 37, who last year got engaged at Joshua Tree National Park, had ...

Alison and Jay Carroll took the desert home down to the studs and rebuilt it with smooth plaster, custom millwork, and an ...

As someone who's been to all 63, I think Death Valley, Dry Tortugas, and Joshua Tree are some of the best US national parks ...

Climate change is the single greatest threat to the long-term survival of the Joshua tree, a beloved symbol of California’s high desert. But the biggest short-term obstacle is an impasse by state ...

With their twisted stalks and otherworldly outlines, Joshua trees look straight out of an alien landscape or a Dr. Seuss book. But lucky for us, these amazing icons of California’s Mojave Desert are ...

9:26 a.m. Aug. 3, 2023: An earlier version of this article misspelled the last name of retired conservation ecologist Cameron Barrows as Barrow. A light rain fell on the Mojave National Preserve, ...

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Conservationists have tried for years to protect the Western Joshua tree, a twisty plant strewn across the desert landscape. They sought a threatened-species designation from California that is ...