Watch: More of California’s protected Joshua trees could be cut down June 4, 2024 Home Explore The Naturalist's Journal Watch: More of California’s protected Joshua trees could be cut down Share FacebookTwitterEmail Environmentalists warn that a California Democrat’s bill “drives a bulldozer” through the state’s new law that protects imperiled Joshua trees from commercial development. But the lawmaker says his impoverished desert region desperately needs the economic boost.