May 2024 (One Month - One Picture)
Explore Landscapes #36: May was a month of much hiking, leading workshops, volunteering on JTNPA field classes. Oh, and a quick trip to the ER.
The Desert Queen Mine was one of our destinations on our quest to find each of the 15 species of cacti in Joshua Tree National Park.
Desert Queen Mine had quite a checkered history. A prospector called Frank James discovered gold at Desert Queen in 1894. A local cattle rustler, Jim McHaney, decided that …
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