Participate in the
Discovering the Ancient Program

By participating in the “Discovering the Ancients” project, you will be collecting information that serves the national park, its guests, and the scientific community into the future. The program’s combination of fieldwork and data submission allows you to participate in real science. It also allows you to contribute to a community network designed to raise awareness of the valuable heritage of ancient native plants all around us.

High school teachers wanting their students to seriously assist in real scientific data collection, as well as contribute to an on-going study, should contact the park’s education specialist to participate in the Discovering the Ancients study in Joshua Tree National Park.

PARK EDUCATION SPECIALIST
 760-367-3011
 EMAIL AT JOTR_EDUCATION@NPS.GOV

The park’s education program takes reservations for one year in advance. Spots for ranger-led programs fill quickly and need to be booked with the park’s education specialist by August for the fall and winter time slots, and by November for the spring openings.”

 

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A brief description of Joshua Tree National Park, including weblinks for the U.S. National Park Service site as well as other sites of interest regarding the park.

Official NPS Web site:
Joshua Tree National Park

http://www.nps.gov/jotr/

When you go out in the desert and actually look at the plants, and I mean sit and look at them, you begin to see the diversity and complexity this land has to offer. When you walk next to the plants and rocks of the desert, you begin to feel connected to them, as your grandparents would have felt, if they had lived here. It is not a harsh place, if you slow down and listen.

Curt Sauer, Superintendent
Joshua Tree National Park

 

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