Volunteers sweep in to clean Joshua Tree mess
by Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times
Jan 10, 2019
3 minutes
JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. - In this high desert enclave, Rand Abbott is a well-known man of action. He's a paraplegic rock climber, a vocal lightning rod at town hall meetings, and a tireless promoter for the desert landscape and its resident creatures.
So it came as little surprise to friends two weeks ago when he volunteered to clean restrooms and remove trash that was littering Joshua Tree National Park because of a partial government shutdown over funding for President Donald Trump's border
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