When a Tree Isn’t a Tree

The small desert town of Twentynine Palms is the gateway to Southern California’s iconic Joshua Tree National Park.  The 1,200 square mile park straddles two distinct ecosystems: the Mojave and the Colorado deserts.  Its landscape features craggy rocks, jumbles of stacked boulders, and stark barren terrain dotted by Joshua Trees. The “Joshua Tree” was named[…]