is a funny thing to behold. With their green spiky new growth at each arm’s end and the shaggy yellow remnants of older growth lower down, they’re like a cross between a palm tree and an agave. (They’re actually a yucca.) Sometimes they seem, is more endangered than the eastern Joshua tree, . In recent years, millions of both have been lost, killed by fire — the York Fire in 2023 and the Dome Fire in 2020 — and to make way for housing and for solar farms, which are popping up across the Mojave Desert.
