I felt these places feel more like amusement parks than being able to enjoy nature.

Welp. I did NOT expect a national parks video to absolutely make me ball my eyes out at work. But here I am. This was such a beautiful tribute 🖤. Thank you 🖤 Rest in Peace President Carter🖤

Bro i swear these plants are fine in Mexico. Nearly everywhere you look you see them.

Fun fact there is no such thing as a tree, there is no scientific definition. What we call trees are just a bunch of plants that experienced convergent evolution

1st off... botanically, Yucca brevifolia is classified as a ***monocodyledonous tree*** so YES... Joshua Trees are in fact trees. Tree.... a tall, upright woody perennial plant, with lateral branches growing from a central stem or trunk. The word... tree... is NOT a taxonomic classification. It describes the growth habbit of a plant, such as... shrub, bush, vine, or grass. The Rosacea family for example includes... Blackberry vines, Rose bushes, & Pear trees. The Fabaceae family includes... Wysteria vines, Indigo bushes, & Redbud trees. Anacardiaceae family includes... Poison ivy vines, Sumac bushes, & Cashew trees.

i’ve seen a lot of joshua trees in mexico

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At 3:59 "....basically like yesterday on these time scales...." 60 million years is 3% of 2 billion years. That does not qualify as basically yesterday. To put it into perspective, if you condensed Earth 4.5 billion years into 24 hours, 2 billion years ago would be about 10 hours and 40 minutes ago more or less....60 million years ago would be 10 to 15 minutes ago, more or less. So considerably longer than like "yesterday"....

I would like to hear about bristlecone pines. There are three subspecies, the most famous are in the White mountains in California in the White mountain forest inside Inyo national Forest. There are others that are in other states such as Colorado and Wyoming I have been told. It's not in a national park, but would you be willing to do a video on them??

The best ones are in Arizona, California likes to grind them down to build solar panel fields.

As more of a city/architecture fan I really enjoyed my visit and I think it was down to it being a part of the park system and not just a private run tourist site.

I'd love to see more like this. There are almost enough iconic species in US National Parks that someone could almost have a channel just for those.

Poachers?? I'm also profoundly worried, that vengeful former loggers, still stinging from employment denied by "Green Policies", could be motivated to vandalize/topple monarch-sized Giant Sequoias!

Furloughs . . . does that mean, ALL NPS employees, most importantly, Rangers and their "Supers", might then be well-advised, to cast their Resumes, out to the private sector, in order to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves and their families, in spite of how senior and tenured they may be?

Where in the top layer is the K/T Boundary

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I would call them trees. Understand that "tree" is not a monophyletic classification; trees have evolved independently about 100 times over the last half a billion years.

I’d like more videos like this

Maybe do the bald cypress of Congaree?

Is this an average throughout the year of 33 minutes, or is it a maximum or minimum? Thanks for the video.

Please learn how to pronounce Nevada.

There are so many of these in the northern Mexican states of Sonora, Coahuila, Baja, and maybe others. I'm not talking really close to the border, but even a hundred+ miles out. The highways are surrounded by them.

Joshua Trees, and many other succulents indigenous to the Sonoran Desert also thrife on Tenerife Island. Tenerife is the largest of the Canary Islands, off the coast of Africa.

Love the video but I just have to correct your pronunciation on Nevada. It's pronounced Nev-AD-uh not Nev-AH-duh. I just hate my home states names constantly being butchered in media.

I lived on the Kenai Peninsula for a dozen years. The most surreal landscape is standing on the Harding Icefield. Yes...the boat for many people is the way to go and is also incredible

I have a Joshua in my front yard and now I know much more about it, mainly about the sub species. Thank you.

I live in Palm Springs so they are tons of them just through the pass. What you almost never hear is how good they are at smoking and cooking. Now we have lots of mesquite out here to and that makes great grillin wood AND smokin wood, but I have to say after chopping down quite a few of these, Whoa- some of the tastiest bbq you are ever gonna taste. Once you go Joshua Tree- you're not gonna wanna grill with any other wood. It's got a sweetness to it, almost like a dark honey type taste and the smoke of it is really mild and clean- almost like live oak. These trees for sure need to be protected b/c I frankly don't know if I wanna cook with anything else ever.! Anywho, great vid- thanks.

Got one in my backyard. Very slow growers and never, and I MEAN NEVER, back into one. OUCH!

Awesome video! I've been to Tikaboo valley a couple of time and the mix of Eastern & Western Joshua Trees is pretty cool. Not to nit pick, but it looks like you showed a grove Mojave Yucca for the unbranched Joshua Tree example. They can look similar, and their preferred habitat overlaps extensively with Joshua Trees, but the leaves are quite a bit longer (12" to 60") vs. Joshua Trees (6" - 12") and they seldom branch out. I've always felt like, young unbranched Johsua Trees look like Marge Simpson's hair....lol. When I first encountered Mojave Yuccas, I thought that they were just deformed Joshua Trees, but the ranger at the Mojave NP lined me out on the differences. Last year we gave some seeds (Western variety) to a friend that runs a fruit tree nursery in southern France and he was able to get all of them to sprout. I'm expecting there to be people planting them as ornamentals at some point. I've seen quite a few Sugaros, and Orgon Pipe Cactus in peoples yards too.

you live around there. ??

Pretty disappointed my trees aren’t actual trees 😔

Get RID of NPS it is a major waste of money. They could easily turn all of National Parks over to the States and a bunch of these Parks Honestly serve no purpose and should be sold off to developers, Rocky Mountain National Park comes to mind

I purchased one from a nursery and am growing it in Pendleton, Oregon. We get about 12 inches of rain a year.

It's in Colorado. Was that so hard to say?

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Temperature is perfect to

Why don't they raise the walkways up above the high water mark so folks can enjoy it even during the flood season? But maybe canoes are a better way?

Love this video! Thank you for making something that can be very tedious into interesting!

I think they should be called Dr Saus Trees...

Dinosaur trees

unfortunately there is a swath of land that a solar company was allowed to chop down a bunch of Joshua Trees in California to put in solar panels recently

Joshua tree is a stupid name for a tree. I'd rather just say Yucca brevifolia.

Alligators being found in Everglades with shrunken penises. Endocrine disruptors blamed (atrazine). Obama's science czar JOHN HOLDREN co-wrote a 1,400 page textbook called ECOSCIENCE that describes schemes to secretly sterilize and thus depopulate the hapless human masses by poisoning public water supplies. The other co-authors are named EHRLICH. Maryland governor EHRLICH has always kept hidden his familial relations, presumably out of shame or worse. During his EHRLICH regime in Maryland some years ago, "gay frogs" were first found in Maryland's Potomac River. Could be Total CoinciDUNCE or could be that circumstances were such under EHRLICH that allowed an 'evil experiment' of sorts to occur in line with the other EHRLICH's schemes plan published in ECOSCIENCE. zombietime site has more. CONSPIRA ORGanization has much more.

There’s something magical about these guys. I loved them as a child and I still do

I love Joshua trees! They are literally tree sized yuccas!

From what I understand the Joshua Tree has been reclassified into the asparagus family, sub-family agave. Also, to the best of my understanding, the term 'tree' in botany is not specific, but generally refers to a woody tall plant with a central stem (trunk). So like the palm tree, the Joshua Tree can be referred to as a tree, but it is a bit misleading. Anyway, I could be wrong about everything I just said.

Currently jorkin my pre-Cambrian metamorphic peepnis to this rn 💔

Absolutely an awesome explanation for every one questioning where they came from!❤❤❤❤