What is true for the Joshua tree is true as well for the human communities strung along the highway that stretches above the northern edge of the 800,000-acre Joshua Tree National Park.
The Fire Island Association, which says it represents 3,850 property owners, wants new dunes built in front of many of the 17 communities strung along the island.
Anxiety binds the community now, after a string of suspected arsons -- 13 in the last four weeks -- destroyed entire sections of town, left scores of people homeless and prompted officials to declare a state of emergency.
A legacy of the ice age, the Dunes lure second-home owners to quiet communities strung along the beachfront.
The city health department, not waiting for a definitive diagnosis, in the darkness of night quarantined the entire community by "stringing ropes around its dozen square blocks".
ASK many Connecticut residents to describe "the Valley" — the string of communities along the Naugatuck River — and the answer is bound to include mentions of boarded-up factories.
Notable settled regions are the Ḥula Valley in the north; the string of agricultural communities south of the Sea of Galilee in the West Bank, including Deganya the oldest kibbutz (collective agricultural settlement) in Israel, founded in 1909 Afriqim, Ashdot Yaʿaqov, and H̱awwat Shemuʾel; the area along the East Ghor Canal on the east bank; and the area of the Wadi Fāriʿah in the West Bank.
"But we are creating a facility for the school and a facility for the community and in times of financial stringing this is something we have to think of doing".
"We thank the community for reporting this issue and apologise for the offensive string," it said to Network World.
The communities have secured a string of victories, including settling land disputes and phonetically transcribing textbooks to preserve their language, which was unwritten.
