Mojave Superintendent Accepts Lassen Park Job

 

The last volcanic activity at Lassen was 1921.

Mary Martin, superintendent of the 1.6 million acres of the Mojave National Preserve east of Barstow, Calif., since 1995 (the part was established in Oct. 1994), will be the new superintendent of Lassen Volcanic National Park beginning in October, according to the Desert Dispatch (Barstow).

Martin is a 36-year veteran of the Park Service. Her achievements at Mojave include restoration of the historic Kelso Depot and the construction of the National Park Service?EUR??,,????'???s new building in Barstow.

Mojave has a landscape of sand dunes, volcanic cinder cones, Joshua tree forests and mile-high mountains. Lassen is in northeastern California at the southern end of the Cascade Mountains, about 50 miles east of Redding, Calif. The park displays all four types of volcanoes found in the world and over 150 miles of trails.