My kids love the badges that the Rangers present ... at the Joshua Tree National Park events page. Homesteading in the Mojave desert required fortitude, perseverance, and ingenuity.

Biologist Katharine Edmonson asked the young boy who approached her table if he wanted to hold the tiger skull in his hands. Some children hesitate, but not 11-year-old Devin Shuman, a fifth-grader at ...