Snow day at Joshua Tree ❄️

I never tire of the desert, but I especially never tire of SNOW in the desert! 🌵🏜❄️

Filing this under "any press is good press"

Joshua trees can be legally protected in California, court rules desertsun.com/story/news/env…

An uncommon “common garden” joshuatreegenome.org/archives/2021/…

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Mojave ecosystems, wilderness, and climate change on To The Point kcrw.com/news/shows/to-…

Field season 2021 is already testing our Joshua trees’ limits joshuatreegenome.org/archives/2021/…

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"... all those Joshua trees across the valley floor [are] thriving, surrounded by their young, with room still to move upward. The problem with up is there’s only so far to go before it’s just sky." grist.org/climate/can-we…

Joshua Tree Genome Project PI @dr_moth awarded the prestigius Lynwood W. Swanson Scientific Research Award from the Murdock Trust willamette.edu/news/library/2…

An estimated 1.3 million Joshua trees were killed when the 2020 Dome fire swept through a northern portion of the Mojave National Preserve near the California-Nevada border. Can the ecosystem be restored? knowmag.org/3pHMhkg

Joshua Tree Genome Project and friends featured in @abc7 coverage of the challenges facing our favorite spiky desert plants

In less than a fortnight, Joshua trees are coming to Alaska! Check out JTGP collaborators' talks at #Botany2022 in Anchorage: @kheyduk, 25 July, 9:30—botanyconference.org/engine/search/… @JBYoder, 27 July, 8:00—botanyconference.org/engine/search/… @BryTheBotanist, 27 July 1:30—botanyconference.org/engine/search/…

"Tree" — the growth form so nice, plants evolved it way more than twice

New publication: Conservation challenges and solutions for the Mojave Desert joshuatreegenome.org/archives/2022/…

Joshua Tree Genome Project PIs offer field research experience this spring joshuatreegenome.org/archives/2023/…