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Letter From the Desert: Please Touch the Joshua Trees

Letter From the Desert: Please Touch the Joshua Trees

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Chris Clarke
Dec 29, 2019
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The Elmer Tree was hard hit this week. An ancient Joshua tree near the Desert Queen mine named for a Joshua Tree National Monument ranger who used to rest under it during his lunch breaks, the Elmer Tree lost several large pieces of itself sometime during the night of December 26-27, victim of a heavy snowfall that even now is wreaking tourist-traffic-r…

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