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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World Reef Awareness Day
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Spire Cove in Kenai Fjords National Park, Seward, Alaska
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Stuben am Arlberg, Austria
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Burrowing owls
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The Rainbow Houses of Houten, Netherlands
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International Day of the Tropics
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Happy Father s Day
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1934 Labor Day parade, Gastonia, North Carolina
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Make way for robots
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A cry for independence
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Happy Valentines Day!
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The fantastic winter fox
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Giants of the avian world
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National Hummingbird Day
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So, how long till springtime?
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South Beach in Miami Beach, Florida
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Exploring the wilder side of New York
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Water colors
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On the rebirth of the Olympic Games
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Paris is photo-ready this week
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A visionary artist paints his own garden view
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Giving Tuesday
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Horsetail Fall in Yosemite National Park, California
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A swim in the sky
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Sonoma Coast State Park, California
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Okefenokee Swamp
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Easter Sunday
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San Blas Islands, Panama
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The Monastery of Roussanou, Greece
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A wassailing we go
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