Desert Forest: Life with Joshua Trees (paperback)

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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.

Sant Khalsa is an artist and activist whose artworks are widely exhibited, published, and collected by museums including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Center for Creative Photography in Tucson. She is a Professor of Art, Emerita at California State University, San Bernardino and lives in Joshua Tree.

Dr. Juniper Harrower specializes in multispecies entanglements under climate change, working at the intersection of ecology and art practice. Her artwork is exhibited internationally, and she publishes across disciplines. She directed the UCSC Art+Science Initiative, taught art at UC Berkeley, and is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Reed College. 

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.

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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.

Sant Khalsa is an artist and activist whose artworks are widely exhibited, published, and collected by museums including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Center for Creative Photography in Tucson. She is a Professor of Art, Emerita at California State University, San Bernardino and lives in Joshua Tree.

Dr. Juniper Harrower specializes in multispecies entanglements under climate change, working at the intersection of ecology and art practice. Her artwork is exhibited internationally, and she publishes across disciplines. She directed the UCSC Art+Science Initiative, taught art at UC Berkeley, and is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Reed College. 

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.

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.

Sant Khalsa is an artist and activist whose artworks are widely exhibited, published, and collected by museums including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Center for Creative Photography in Tucson. She is a Professor of Art, Emerita at California State University, San Bernardino and lives in Joshua Tree.

Dr. Juniper Harrower specializes in multispecies entanglements under climate change, working at the intersection of ecology and art practice. Her artwork is exhibited internationally, and she publishes across disciplines. She directed the UCSC Art+Science Initiative, taught art at UC Berkeley, and is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Reed College. 

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.

Weight: 1 lbs.

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