Two new opportunities to give back to your public lands are available at Joshua Tree National Park, but the deadline to apply is this Saturday (11/23) First up - they are looking for exhibit stewards that will help keep the signage and exhibit installations clean and able to provide info to the over 3 millions yearly park visitors. The stationary installations you see at spots like the Cholla Gardens provide info on the surrounding landscape, flora, fauna or anything else of interest in the…

On August 10, Joshua Tree National Park celebrated a birthday - 83 years ago the area was designated a national monument by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. That original effort was almost single handedly championed by the original desert defender - Minerva Hoyt, who used her generational wealth and passion for the desert to have the 825,000 acres protected as a monument in 1936. It took her over 20 years, and there was talk about naming the park after her. Instead, she has the Miernva…