We’ll keep defending these trees from threats to their habitat, from wildfire to mining to development. Because Joshua trees don’t have annual growth rings, it’s very hard to age them. We don’t know ...

and creating a new Chuckwalla National Monument that would preserve over 600,000 acres between Joshua Tree National Park and the Colorado River. The expansion area would protect old-growth woodlands ...

When a renewable energy company started razing thousands of Joshua trees this month to make way for a sprawling solar farm, it kicked up a firestorm of outrage among Mojave Desert residents and ...