Joshua Tree Residential Education Experience

Joshua Tree Residential Education Experience (JTREE) is a non-profit organization whose goal is to establish and operate an outdoor education campus in partnership with Joshua Tree National Park. With our planet’s ecological future facing many uncertainties, it’s clear that there is no better cause than supporting efforts to educate today’s youth about the natural world. It’s been widely acknowledged that providing youth outdoor ecological education can increase self-confidence and inspire youth to live healthy, positive, and socially engaged lives. As a newly established nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, JTREE is responding to this opportunity by working to sustainably provide outdoor residential / multi-day youth education experiences. Notably, JTREE will offer the first permanent, multi-day, youth-oriented outdoor education program based in the 20-plus million-acre California Desert region. Ultimately it will serve more than 4,000 youth per year and focus on a diverse student body that otherwise might not have the opportunity to participate in such a program. This residential education program shall be primarily established, funded, constructed and operated in partnership with Joshua Tree National Park. JTNP and JTREE formalized this partnership by signing a Partnership Agreement which outlines the roles and responsibilities for each partner. The JTNP/JTREE residential education partnership is the first of its kind in the 20+ million-acre ecologically unique and vulnerable California Desert. It will primarily serve a diversity of youth from schools in the southern California and southwest regions. A program focus is to serve youth who normally do not have access to the outdoor education. JTREE is always looking for people who share our vision and want to help us achieve our goals. For more information about donations and/or joining our effort, visit www.JTreeOutdoorEd.org.