How The National Park Service Is Working To Prevent Wildfires

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The Joshua tree is located in the desert. It only grows in this region of the world. It is a member of the asparagus family because it is unique, picturesque, bizarre, resilient and a yucca.

The Joshua trees take hundreds of years to mature. The Joshua Tree National Monument was created in 1936 and became the Joshua Tree National Park in 1994. The largest Joshua tree forest on the planet was once located in the Mojave National Preserve.

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The area around Cima Dome was lit up by lightning on August 16, 2020, the same day that six other California fires started. The largest recorded fire in California was the August Complex Fire. Over 43,000 acres and an estimated 1.3 million Joshua trees were burned in the Mojave National Preserve. It was a huge loss.

There are charred Joshua trees beneath the dry California sky. There is a graveyard of blackened sand and skeletons in the Mojave National Preserve, which was once a lush forest of unique desert flora. Could this fire have been stopped?