Joshua Tree National Park News

Seventeen years ago, Donna and Larry Charpied went to court to protect their backyard.

The stakeholders for three solar plants planned for public land east of Joshua Tree National Park turned out in force Friday for two public input sessions at the Palm Desert campus of UC Riverside.

The Bureau of Land Management and the California Energy Commission are holding a daylong public hearing on three solar plants planned for federal land east of Joshua Tree National Park, at 9 a.m. today at the Palm Desert Graduate Center of UC Riverside, 75-080 Frank Sinatra Drive.

At the beginning of the 20th century, a group of businessmen began draining the largest wetland in America.

Please help me thank the various people involved in responding to emergencies in the valley who saved my life on Oct.

Public meetings scheduled for Dec. 10 in Blythe and Dec. 11 in Palm Desert will give Coachella Valley residents a chance to raise their concerns about three huge solar power projects planned for 202,000 acres of federal land east of the Coachella Valley.

Slack lining is one of Adam Grosowsky's many talents. At Joshua Tree National Park in California, he balances on a rope approximately 100 feet above ground without safety equipment.

Leonids are seen streaking in a 25-minute exposure Nov. 18, 2001, over Joshua Tree National Park in California.

Leonids meteor shower as seen from Joshua Tree National Park in 2001. Wally Pacholka/Astropics.com Experts predict this year's Leonids meteor shower to peak on Tuesday, November 17.

One desert farming couple sued a giant garbage dump company and won. Their victory in federal court may permanently end plans to create one of the world's largest landfills near Joshua Tree National Park.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has found errors in a lower court's handling of a case that could result in the world's largest landfill being established next to Joshua Tree National Park.

A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel today upheld a 2005 court decision that overturned a federal land exchange necessary for the development of the Eagle Mountain Landfill near Joshua Tree National Park.

The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a 2005 court decision overturning the land exchange necessary for the development of the Eagle Mountain Landfill near Joshua Tree National Park.

Yosemite, Yellowstone and Grand Canyon get the publicity, and the visitors. But there are plenty of lesser-known national parks that offer gorgeous vistas and pristine back country, far from the maddening crowds.

California Governor Schwarzenegger just wrote $9,000 worth of I.O.U.s to clean up Joshua Tree National Park, as it was infested with more than 3,000 highly flammable golf balls.

Prospectors hoping to retire rich burrowed into the high desert that today is part of Joshua Tree National Park.

In 1994, Congress passed the California Desert Protection Act, which made Joshua Tree a National Park.

The Desert Institute at Joshua Tree National Park will hold a two-day field class on edible plants of the desert from 9 a.m. to evening Oct.

Speaking in Palm Springs today, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said the United States could be generating 25 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2025, and the Coachella Valley could be the "point of the spear in making these goals a reality." Salazar was in the valley today for an aerial tour of federal parks and the public ...

Joshua Tree National Park could end up with no Joshua Trees because climate change threats, according to a new report by the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization.