Moving toward a monument: Proposed Chuckwalla Monument hopes to follow in Joshua Tree’s footsteps
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…
