I have pictures of myself as a child having climbing Joshua Trees in the deserts of Southern California

Throughout many areas of the higher deserts at least in the Mojave Desert of Califonria there have always been Joshua trees. And like I said I have pictures taken of me climbing Joshua trees as a child and teenager and even one with a girlfriend when I was about 20 years old.

My father bought property covered with Joshua trees in 1968 up above Yucca Valley, California out in the country. 

The point is that much of my life (especially weekends from 1968 until 1980 I spent helping my father and mother build their retirement home among the Joshua trees. My father loved the fact that you could see 50 to 100 miles in most directions from his 2 1/2 acres of land that we built a home on from 1968 until 1980 where they eventually retired in 1980 and my father lived with my mother there until he passed away in 1985.

So, Joshua trees are important to me too since so much of my childhood and young adulthood was around them. So, I'm happy to see people trying to replace the burned up from fire Joshua trees and also those now dying because the temperatures have gotten too high for them to live anymore too.

The other plant that is big that is also dying in Arizona is the Saquaro cactuses around Phoenix, Arizona especially also because it is now getting too hot in the summers for the Saquaro cactuses to stay alive in the present desert environments.