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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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A Desert Park )〕
==History==
The park was initially created as a National Monument on 10 August 1936, containing , after Minerva Hoyt led activism aimed at persuading the state and federal governments at protecting the area. The park was elevated to a National Park on 31 October 1994 by the Desert Protection Act, which also added 234,000 acres to the park.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nps.gov/jotr/historyculture/parkhistory.htm )〕
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