Imagine for a moment: you’re hiking in Joshua Tree National Park and look out to see a beautiful landscape of Joshua trees, vegetation, and towering rock formations. Then, suddenly some of those rocks begin to move! You pull out your binoculars (or zoom in with your camera/phone) and find out that whatever’s up there isn’t even rocks… It’s a herd of desert bighorn sheep! Bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) are masters of steep and rocky habitats. They have brown-furred bodies with white rump

Ah to be a lizard looking up at a Joshua tree... Everything in the Joshua Tree ecosystem sees this place through its own eyes. Small animals like lizards and insects move through a landscape full of things so much bigger than them. Their perspective looks very different to what we see when we’re hiking through! Many people move *through* the park: visit, and then go somewhere else. But for many small creatures, Joshua Tree National Park is the only place they’ve ever known. How would you treat t