While the U.S. Fish and Wildlife goes back to the drawing board, the western Joshua tree does now have some new protections under the Western Joshua Tree Conservation Act, passed by the California ...

Joshua trees have ordinarily been a protected species of tree. Avantus, the developer behind the project, received an exemption from Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Fish and Game ...

You don’t see a whole lot of them in this state.” The species of tree being bulldozed are not endangered according to the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife.