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Letter From the Desert: Listing the Joshua tree

Letter From the Desert: Listing the Joshua tree

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Chris Clarke
Oct 21, 2019
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I am walking through the Hexie Mountains, a small range composed mainly of metamorphic rock in Joshua Tree National Park. The Hexies are perhaps a couple miles north of the southernmost wild Joshua tree in the entire world. The Joshua trees in the Hexies look pretty healthy, but they’re in trouble.

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