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Professor Wins Award for Book on Joshua Tree National
Park Geology
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“Joshua Tree National Park Geology,"
coauthored by Richard W. Hazlett and D.D. Trent, received a
2004 Media and Partnership Award for excellence, from the
Association of Partners for Public Lands (APPL). The award
was presented in March at the APPL’s national conference in
St. Louis.
Joshua Tree National Park, now in peak flowering season, is
home to rugged mountains of twisted rock and exposed granite
monoliths testify to the tremendous earth forces that shaped
and formed this land into a giant desert mosaic of immense
beauty and complexity. Adjacent to the San Andreas Fault,
the area is the result of over two billion years of
collided, scraping, crumpling and shaking of the land into
its present form.
The 64-page book traces the evolution of Joshua Tree
National Park’s unique desert landscape in an
easy-to-understand format featuring full-color photographs,
instructive graphic illustrations and geologic maps. Concise
descriptions of the combination of factors that formed the
park’s distinctive features are explained stage by stage.
The book was written for newly inquisitive visitors and
students of geology. It published by the Joshua Tree
National Park Association.
The APPL works to enhance the potential of its member
not-for-profit organizations to provide the highest levels
of program and service to public agencies entrusted with the
care of America’s natural and cultural heritage.
Hazlett is the Stephen M. Pauley Professor of Environmental
Studies and an associate professor of geology at Pomona
College. He teaches courses in environmental science,
geology and Land Use and Abuse. In 2001, he was the
recipient of the college’s Wig Distinguished Professorship
Award for Excellence in Teaching. His previous books include
“Roadside Geology of Hawaii” (1996), “Geological Field Guide
to Kilauea Volcano” (1993), and “Pu’uhonua O Honaunau Place
of Refuge” (1985), for which he won a U.S. Park Service
Award of Excellence in Publications. A resident of
Claremont, his geological mapping research helped establish
the Turtle Mountain Wilderness in the eastern Mojave Desert.
Trent taught geology and oceanography at Citrus College, in
Glendora, for 28 years. He is the co-author of the widely
used college textbook “Geology and the Environment” and
appears in the PBS series, “The Earth Revealed.” Now
retired, Trent lives in Claremont.
The Joshua Tree National Park Association can be reached at
(760) 367-5537 or on the web at www.joshuatree.org.
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