It's estimated about 100 million trees are cut down annually to make direct marketing advertisements and Americans spend an average eight months of their lives sifting through it.
A federal bill adds 4,518 acres to Joshua Tree National Park and increases protection for more than 1 million additional acres elsewhere in California, Utah and New Mexico.
The National Park Service is cataloging scat to better understand how coyotes have carved out such a comfortable life in the hybrid ecosystem they share with humans.