Seth Pettit is a Joshua Tree local and the owner of Mojave Guides. Christina Sanchez is a desert ecologist and bioregional clinical herbalist, as well as the founder of Every Leaf Speaks Botanical Studies, a company that provides naturalist-led hikes through the national park.

The declarations bar oil and natural gas drilling, as well as mining and other exploration and production initiatives, on the 624,000-acre Chuckwalla site, and 225,000-acre Sáttítla site.

Protecting two different desert ecosystems, Joshua Tree National Park is minutes from Palm Springs. Conveniently located off Interstate 10, this is an easy national park to drive through. So you can explore this site on a road trip when you drive one way through the park.

I recommend going before the crack of dawn, because these free days are popular and you’ll find lots of people on the most visited trails.

President Joe Biden is signing a proclamation to establish two new national monuments in California, in part to honor two tribes.

President Joe Biden officially announced the creation of a national monument south of Joshua Tree National Park today. The Chuckwalla National Monument in Southern California creates the largest corridor of protected lands in the continental United States,

Chuckwalla National Monument is a cornerstone in a vast network of protected landscapes across the Southwest. Stretching from Joshua Tree to the Grand Canyon to Bears Ears, this corridor forms the largest swath of protected lands in the continental U.

Proclamations set to be signed Tuesday will create the Chuckwalla National Monument in Southern California near Joshua Tree National Park and the Sáttítla National Monument in Northern California.

Biden has federally protected 1,053,125 square miles of land and ocean in his term — an area nearly four times the size of Texas.

President Joe Biden is signing a proclamation to establish two new national monuments in California in part to honor two tribes.

The area that is now Joshua Tree National Park wasn’t always a desert. During the Great Ice Age, also known as the Pleistocene Epoch, there were rivers and lakes as well as Columbian mammoths ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is signing a proclamation to establish two new national monuments in California to honor two tribes and celebrate his administration's conservation efforts.