An aerial view of homes next to undeveloped desert on Dec. 8, 2022, near Palm Desert, California. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) ...

Proposed by Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-Palm Desert), the Chuckwalla National Monument and Joshua Tree National Park extension would encompass roughly 660,000 acres of public land in the California desert.

An almost full moon sits framed between palm trees, on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, in Pomona. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul, The Sun/SCNG) By Joshua Siskin | perfectplants18@yahoo.com ...

Can you imagine San Diego without palm trees? I grew up in the San Francisco Bay area and have associated palms with Southern California since I visited my cousins in Pasadena during the 1960s.

Though just an hour’s drive from Palm Springs, the region around California’s Joshua Tree National Park feels like a totally different reality. Of course, that has a lot to do with its ...

In Southern California, if you head west on Interstate 10 to Los Angeles, the swaying palm trees are among the region’s most iconic markers. However, if you’re on an eastbound trip to the ...