Joshua trees cut down. Graffiti painted on rocks. Those images and more circulated like wildfire on social media as people expressed outrage over the damage in California’s Joshua Tree National Park, open but unprotected during the federal government shutdown.
“Dreadful,” Sandra Rosenburg tweeted on Jan. 10. “Those who cut down Joshua trees need to be prosecuted.”
Visitors have been illegally driving off road, cutting down trees, and spray-painting rocks, Joshua Tree Superintendent David Smith told National Parks Traveler, ...
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