Desert Forest: Life with Joshua Trees is a collection of essays and imagery that illuminates our deeply entangled relationships with the Joshua tree. Leading scientists, artists, indigenous culture bearers, historians, conservationists, policy makers, and creative writers, share their multidisciplinary research to spotlight the Joshua tree in response to the growing threat of climate change and the explosion of development across Mojave Desert lands. Following the trails of beneficial plant kinships as well as the damage done by ongoing extractions, they share desert cosmologies through this unique icon—all while bringing us closer to the being that is Joshua tree. This book is for everyone concerned about the unfolding impacts of human actions in the natural world and how we can find better ways of living together through acts of care and repair.
 
Edited by Sant Khalsa and Juniper Harrower
 
Published by Inlandia Institute
With generous support from Getty, Lancaster Museum and Public Art Foundation, and Creative Research Fund.
On the occasion of the exhibition of the same title and PST ART: Art & Science Collide, an initiative of Getty.
 
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