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Joshua Tree National Park: Where Two Deserts Meet and a Moth Keeps the Trees Alive
We cross into Joshua Tree National Park, 795,156 acres straddling the higher Mojave Desert and the lower Colorado Desert. Learn how Franklin Roosevelt protected it as a monument in 1936 and Congress upgraded it to a national park in 1994, why the Joshua tree is really a yucca pollinated by a single, dependent moth species, and why climate projections warn the park could warm 8 degrees Fahrenheit by 2099, threatening the very tree it's named for. Next time: Olympic National Park.
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