An effort is underway to create a new national monument next to Joshua Tree National Park that would preserve almost 700,000 desert acres for recreation while protecting plants, animals and ...

RIO RANCHO, N.M. (KRQE) – A Rio Rancho neighborhood is mourning the loss of a massive Joshua Tree after Saturday’s storm destroyed it. “We moved into this house in the 1990s and we… ...

WildEarth Guardians, a nonprofit organization headquartered in Santa Fe, New Mexico, first petitioned to list the Joshua tree as “threatened” in 2015.

Joshua Tree offers hiking, bouldering, night sky viewing and ... The Chihuahua Desert spans from West Texas through New ...

A new conservation plan prepared by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife is a landscape-level blueprint of what’s needed to ensure the Joshua tree's survival.

Joshua Tree National Park has been forced to close after visitors damaged its namesake trees during the partial government shutdown, park authorities announced Tuesday. The closure came as a ...

For the Joshua tree — an internationally recognized symbol of California — fire has become an existential threat. When they burn, they burn fast. And they rarely survive.

Cap Rock Trail is ranked #8 out of 13 things to do in Joshua Tree National Park. See pictures and our review of Cap Rock Trail.

Joshua Tree National Park could get new neighbor — a national monument The 700,000-acre Chuckwalla National Monument, mostly in Riverside County, would protect animals, plants and historic sites ...