Joe Davidson, the owner of Cactus Joe’s, a nursery located off Blue Diamond Road in the southwest Las Vegas valley, has been ...

The Colorado Desert in the eastern portion of the park features natural gardens of creosote bush, ocotillo and cholla cactus. The higher, slightly cooler Mojave Desert offers dazzling vistas of Joshua ...

Joshua Tree is home to two major desert ecosystems: the Colorado Desert and the Mojave Desert ... keep an eye out for ...

National Park Service Today, driving past teddybear cholla cacti, one glimpses jackrabbits ... The plant’s loss could mean the collapse of the Mojave’s high-desert ecosystem.

Other plants, such as cacti, have special means of storing ... solar energy has also created some tensions for desert habitats. In the Mojave, the 2013 arrival of the Ivanpah solar thermal plant ...

Emily Hochberg Joshua Tree National Park is an otherworldly oasis covering nearly 800,000 acres in the Mojave Desert ... flat valley amid lush desert vegetation. Cholla Cactus Garden is another ...

In summer, dry grass stems and cactus pads are main sources of sustenance ... have decimated populations across the Mojave Desert, while grazing and off-road vehicle use continue to degrade habitat.