From the archive: This story originally published in The Desert Sun in 2019. On this south-facing slope in Morongo Valley there is a forest of very old Yucca schidigera, known as the Mojave yucca.

In this video I hike down to the stream to retrieve the yucca fibers I was soaking in the water and to finish making the fish trap from the materials I had previously collected. But my plans are ...