The changing population of birds and mammals in the Morongo Basin is the subject of this month’s Brown Bag Lecture at the Hi-Desert Nature Museum this Thursday. Reporter Eric Knabe has the zoological details…
Joseph Grinnell at the University of California, Berkeley, documented the fauna of Joshua Tree National Park through site exploration during the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Since 2016, the Department of Birds and Mammals at the San Diego Natural History Museum has been resurveying these same sites, using the historic surveys as a standard for gauging more recent changes. Join Dr. Lori Hargrove this Thursday, for this very informative lecture and see which species have left and which are moving into the Morongo Basin. The lectures start at noon. Admission is $5, free for museum sponsors. The Hi-Desert Nature Museum is located at 57090 Twentynine Palms Highway in Yucca Valley.
