The Iconic Joshua Tree Is in Trouble

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By Nexus MediaJul 29, 2019, 10:23 am177 pts
By Marlene Cimons Botanist Lynn Sweet regularly treks through California's Joshua Tree National Park, nearly 800,000 acres that lie at the intersection of the Mojave and Colorado deserts. She likes to photograph the gnarly, spikey-limbed trees, which look — as some have observed — like a picture from a Dr.…

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