Desert Forest: Life with Joshua Trees focuses on the plight of the Joshua tree and its Mojave Desert habitat, threatened by climate change, development, wind and solar energy industries, and wildfires.

Written by leading experts from across disciplines, this is the only comprehensive book on Joshua trees covering Joshua tree ecologies and socio-political histories through a true interdisciplinary engagement that will be accessible and interesting to a wide audience. Part of Getty PST Art: Art and Science Collide. Produced by MOAH Lancaster with Inlandia Institute.

Featuring artists:

Linda Alterwitz

Marthe Aponte

Diane Best

Darin Boville

Matthew Brandt

Fred Brashear Jr.

Bill Leigh Brewer

Claudia Bucher

Nancy Baker Cahill

Gerald Clarke

Maryrose Crook

Torreya Cummings

James M. Dailey

scott b. davis

Dani Dodge

Jessie Homer French

Edgar Fabián Frías

Rob Grad

Jennifer Gunlock

Christine Huhn

Jetsonorama (Chip Thomas)

Jennifer Kane

Yulia Kazakova

Casey Kiernan

Stevie Love

Rebecca Lowry

Meg Madison

Aline Mare

Paloma Menéndez

Eric Merrell

Chelsea Mosher

Chris McCaw

Daisuke Okamoto

Michelle Robinson

Cara Romero

Catherine Ruane

Ed Ruscha

Kim Stringfellow

Ruth Wallen

Jennifer Valenzuela

Danielle Giudici Wallis

E.O. Hoppé (1927)

Carleton Watkins (1870’s)

Essay Authors:

Lynn Sweet, Plant Ecologist, University of California, Riverside

Chris Smith, Joshua Tree Genome Project

Jeremy Yoder, Evolutionary Biologist, California State University, Northridge

Cameron Barrows, Research Ecologist, University of California Riverside (retired)

Daniel Hastings, PhD student at UC Santa Cruz

Sean Milanovich, Historian, Vice President of the Native American Land Conservancy, Member of Cahuilla Tribe

Brendan Cummings, Attorney, Conservation Director, Center for Biological Diversity, Author of the petition to protect Joshua trees under California’s endangered species act

Tyler Green, historian, critic and author, whose work examines the ways in which artists and their work have engaged with and impacted national histories

Shana Nys Dambrot, art critic, art historian, curator, author, and Arts Editor for the L.A. Weekly

Chris Clarke, Environmental Writer and Podcaster “90 Miles from Needles,” formerly California Desert Associate Director for the National Park Conservation Association, and KCET Environment Editor

Ruth Wallen, Art faculty at UC San Diego, eco artist and writer

Ruth Nolan, M.F.A., Mojave Desert author, Professor of Creative Writing at College of the Desert, and former wildland firefighter

Gregory Levine, Chair UC Berkeley Art

Geary Hund, Board member of MDLT and Transition Habitat Conservancy

Rebecca Lowry of JTLAB

Kelly Herbinson, Executive Director, Mojave Desert Land Trust

Darin Boville, photographer and writer

James W. Cornett, ecologist and writer

Alexandra Jonassen, Technical Assistant, Western Hotel Museum, City of Lancaster

Cane West, National Park Service – Archaeology, Anthropology and History, Park Ranger

Andi Campognone, Manager/Director, Museum of Art and History (MOAH), Lancaster, CA

Lauren Lien, Researcher and writer, specializing in archaeology, local history, environmental conservation, and cultural heritage.