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World Cyanotype Day

Fundraising Event

Join Diana Shay Diehl on September 30 to create your own cyanotype prints and support youth outdoor education. Thanks to Diana for donating her proceeds to JTREE!
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Field Instructor jobs

Field Instructors Wanted

Joshua Tree Residential Education Experience (JTREE) is currently accepting applications for Field Instructors and Interns. For details and to submit your application visit Job Opportunities.
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CalPoly Pomona Architecture Students

Students to Design Campus

JTREE partners with CalPoly Pomona Professor of Architecture, Michael Fox and his design studio students in Fall 2022 to design a JTREE Campus.
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Adventure Calling Oasis

Adventure Calling Oasis

JTREE receives California State Parks & Rec Outdoor Equity Program grant award for a day program titled “Adventure Calling Oasis Elementary School.”
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Jim Spee classroom

Serious About Educating

Who better to engage in the formative stages of JTREE’s mission than university students who have been to an outdoor ed camp in their youth, and are currently…
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Youth at camp in Joshua Tree National Park

Philanthropic Partnership

David Smith, Superintendent of Joshua Tree National Park, and Lori Rennie of JTREE sign a new Partnership agreement as JTREE officially moves to Phase I in the development of a youth outdoor ed camp.
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Rachel Wilkin in Joshua Tree National Park

A Student’s View Point

After years living within 2 hours of Joshua Tree National Park I visit the futuristic landscape that grasps the imagination of visitors each year…I’m hooked.
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Aubrey Diehl JTREE Intern

University Student Interns

Yucca Valley native & University of Washington senior, Aubrey Diehl comes to JTREE as an intern with a passion to protect the California Desert.
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Joshua Tree National Park partners

Partnership with JTNP

David Smith, Superintendent of Joshua Tree National Park, and Lori Rennie of JTREE sign a General Agreement marking the beginning of a their partnership…
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Forbes article on Environmental Education

Environmental Education Shapes New Generation

Renowned biologist Sir David Attenborough once remarked that “An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but reas fulfillment.” “The belief that conservation starts with education…
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