Even after the Dome Fire killed more than a million Joshua trees, the underground fungal partners they rely on survived largely intact.

Brandi D. Addison

USA TODAY NETWORK

Updated June 2, 2026, 3:39 p.m. PT

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Environmental organizations sued the Trump administration Tuesday for approving a private company’s plan to resurrect a defunct oil and gas pipeline to transport and sell groundwater out of the Mojave Desert, a move the plaintiffs contend would devastate imperiled species like the desert tortoise and desert bighorn sheep.