Boojum tree – Baja California, Mexico This seriously weird-looking tall, spindly cactus-like tree is among the toughest, given the desert conditions it has to withstand. Local name is ‘cirio ...

The Joshua Tree Art Museum (JTAM), founded by renowned contemporary artist and visionary Shane Townley, proudly announced the groundbreaking of its landmark facility near Copper Mountain College.

But there are also some awe-inspiring trees to be admired. Anyone visiting arboretums this year may wonder at everything from the mighty oak to the weeping willow, yet venture further from our ...

The area that is now Joshua Tree National Park wasn’t always a desert. During the Great Ice Age, also known as the Pleistocene Epoch, there were rivers and lakes as well as Columbian mammoths ...

Ogden Nash regularly contributed verse to The New Yorker for more than forty years. His last poem in the magazine was published the week after his death, in 1971. The Colorado congresswoman’s ...

This bonsai was started more than 70 years ago, when Japanese American bonsai artist John Naka cut the top off a mature juniper tree and planted it in a pot. Over the next two decades, he ...