We began wondering how a person could build houses and fences and bring junked cars onto national parkland; only later did we figure out that Joshua Tree had only been a national park since 1994, and before that was a national monument …

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We began wondering how a person could build houses and fences and bring junked cars onto national parkland; only later did we figure out that Joshua Tree had only been a national park since 1994, and before that was a national monument …

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