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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It s National Hispanic Heritage Month
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Feel the spray in Monterey
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Muskoxen in Dovre-Sunndalsfjella National Park, Norway
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Death Valley National Parks Anniversary
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Remembering the Arizona
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Land of the midnight sun
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Sunburst at Angkor
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Marine Day in Japan
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Going head-to-head with winter
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A long path to freedom
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Astronomy Day
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Zion National Park Turns 100
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Birds of a feather flocking together
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Watch your step
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Celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day
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Registan Square, Samarkand, Uzbekistan
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Fallen but not forgotten
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Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri
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A Eurasian red squirrel in Switzerland
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They’re grrrape!
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All in a day s work
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Vila Franca Islet, São Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal
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National Trails Day
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In the Most Serene Republic
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It s Tolkien Reading Day
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There’s a dog in there somewhere
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Mediterranean red sea stars
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An oceanic valentine
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Maritime forest in Cumberland Island National Seashore, Georgia
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Holidays in the Venetian Lagoon
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