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Joshua Tree National Park lies where the higher Mojave Desert meets the lower Colorado Desert in Southern California. It is named for the twisting Joshua trees of the Mojave side and is famous for its piles of weathered monzogranite boulders.
The park exists largely because of Minerva Hamilton Hoyt, a Pasadena conservationist whose decades-long campaign against cactus poaching led FDR to protect the desert in 1936.
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