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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Shark Awareness Day
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Falling for Tennessee
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Cannes, France, in the spotlight
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Porcupine
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Castle on a hill
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Hyalite Creek at Custer Gallatin National Forest, Montana
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Lake Louise, Banff National Park, Alberta
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Bangkok, Thailand
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The otherworldly red river
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Four little birds sitting in a tree…
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Happy birthday, Saguaro National Park
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A temple, preserved
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Father s Day
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A look at Uranus, seventh planet from the sun
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Winter at Valley Forge
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Love blossoms
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A treaty for science
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Surf s up—Down Under
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Salt ponds of Maras, Peru
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Crimson-rumped toucanet in the Refugio Paz de Las Aves, Ecuador