O which of your Lord’s bounties will you and you deny? (Qur’an 55:32)

What’s killing Joshua Tree National Park?

Longtime visitors to Joshua Tree have been dismayed by the parks deteriorating views, some of which have become so smog-choked that the surrounding San Gorgonios disappear in the summer. (You call that a view? one recent visitor complained up at Keys View, a 5,000-foot-high overlook from which, on a clear day, the Salton Sea should glitter in the distance.) This spring, the Environmental Protection Agency issued an interoffice communiqu? declaring that the parks air had fallen short of national standards 38 days last summer, ranking among the worst in the National Park System and rivaling the Great Smoky Mountains, which is cloaked in the discharge of coal-burning factories and industrial pollution from the cities of Atlanta and Detroit.

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