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Joshua Tree National Park
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Joshua Tree National Park
Joshua Tree National Park
is located in southeastern
California
. Declared a
U.S. National Park
in 1994 when the
U.S. Congress
passed the
California Desert Protection Act
(Public Law 103-433), it had previously been a
U.S. National Monument
since 1936. It is named for the Joshua trees (
Yucca brevifolia
) native to the park. It covers a land area of – an area slightly larger than the state of
Rhode Island
. A large part of the park, some , is a designated
wilderness area
. Straddling the
San Bernardino County
/
Riverside County
border, the park includes parts of two
deserts
, each an
ecosystem
whose characteristics are determined primarily by elevation: the higher
Mojave Desert
and lower
Colorado Desert
. The
Little San Bernardino Mountains
run through the southwest edge of the park.
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