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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Penguin Awareness Day
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A notorious advocate for women
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Welcome to El Cervantino
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Cheetah mother and cub
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National Find a Rainbow Day
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Merry and bright
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Great cormorants
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Aw shucks, it’s oyster season in Galway
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World Bee Day
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National Trails Day
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Dyavolski Most
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Space Week isnt over yet!
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Northern hawk-owl
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Flag Day
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The Rainbow Houses of Houten, Netherlands
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A spectacle unlike any other
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Guild houses of Grand-Place, Brussels, Belgium
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Mekong River Delta, Long An, Vietnam
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Yosemite National Park, California
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Ancient art in the Amazon
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Seasonal lights dazzle in Japan
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Killer whales in Spildra, Norway
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Anniversary of Bryce Canyon National Park
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’Chess on ice’
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Maybe we should be looking up
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Design for Each and All
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Let the Highland games begin
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International Tea Day
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Commemorating the life of a famous railroad conductor
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