1925

AVo'.ume IV November 3o 1925 Number 20

VACATION-LAND IN OUR HOMES THROUGHOUT THE YEAR

Few of us are fortunate enough to spend more than a short vacation each year in our mountain playgrounds. How many of us, as we stood upon the heights and felt the thrill of fellowship that comes with, first-hand acquaintance with the birds, the flowers, the trees and the mountains themselves, have wished that the inspiring influence of these associations could be with us throughout the year in our everyday life. Our government i s doing its part to help us to more thoroughly enjoy and understand our great playgrounds, the National Parks. In Yosemite we find a splendid museum and a corps of naturalists who conduct daily field trips along the trailsides and who deliver evening campfire lectures on a wide variety of natural history subjects. But why should we be satisfied with but an introduction to the trailsides of our beloved Sierra? Is there no way in which we may continue our friendship with the Big Country during each month and each week of the year? There is a way! Lovers of the California mountains have organized to interpret and present in popular form all of the manifestations of Nature of the Sierras and more particularly of Yosemite National Park. Primarily the Yosemite NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION concerns itself with the living things of the Yosemite region; yet it must necessarily be a factor in inspiring a " regard for American Wild Life in general. Yosemite Nature Notes, which has been published in mimeographed form by the Park Naturalist for a number of years, has been adopted as the official organ of the Association. Cooperating with the government, the Association prints "Yosemite Nature Notes" weekly during June, July, and August and monthly throughout the remainder of the year, each of the twenty-four issues being sent to all members. If you are one of the hundreds of thousands who love Yosemite, you will wish to keep in touch with her through the Association. There are hundreds of thousands of others who have no conception of the big message of the Out-of-doors. You will want those uninitiated to learn of what the Park has to offer. Ad now! Fill out the enclosed application for membership and mail it with '' a check or money order for $2.00 to The Park Naturalist, Yosemite National Park, California. Every cent of the. $a.00 will be devoted to keeping you in touch with your Yosemite.

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THE PARK SUPERITENDENTS' TOUR

By G. F. Reynolds Managing Editor Stockton Record.. A 3000-mile automobile journey triremeh the scenic Southetees wit Visits to three national parlrs, five national monuments and the homes Of the picturesque Navajo and Hopi and a day in the Rockies of Southern Colorado in mid-autumn, Add to that the joys of companionship with fine and bully travelers and perhaps you have soma inkling of what your Stockton Record representative found in store fo him on the recent tour of the Pa Olfic Coast caravan of national park superintendents. Before you can gain anything like real apprr elation, however, you first must know the sublimity of the Gran Canyon of the Colorado from both North and South Riots : the fascination of the Painted Desert; tits intriguing interest of Mesa Yerd National Park, the home of the prehistoric cliff dwellers; the glory nf the Colorado Rockies gowned i 1 autumn : the entrancing beauty oY Bryce Canyon with its fragile formations and delicate shades of col Or, and the lure of Zion Canyw which is, in fact, another Yosemit Valley but "done In oils " as on, writer who desired to convey P. idea. of its rich colorings has ver; aptly expressed It. You must know something o Southern Utah and her marvelous people, of the development of ihwonderful valley of the Sevie: which in the vicinity of Salim rivals anything that California ha to show from the stendpeint o agricultural attractiveness, and n her Dixie land where the Blaei Prince and the Flame Tokay gro' luxuriantly and where the succulen pwaet corn is deep on the cols nn tender and toothsome. for Grand both Yes, and yon must ltnow Stephe. i h T. Math r, ton : the staff members of the National Park Service and their wives and families, also. It 's a privilege to know these nnt'on,l each people well. It is a joy to associate with them while they Are at aril' work and. while they are inspecting each other 's parks..ne1 monuments, v i ewing new wonders of nature entrusted to the rare of their,l,partmerte and learning from their fellows new wrinkles of part: management. The Conference at Melia Verde

Mesa Verda National Park In Southern Colorado was the main objective of the tone. There the e annual conference of the. national e perk superintendents was held (etoher 1 to 6 inclusive. The news of the confe en^r 'sessions has been n given extensiv ely in previous is. stow, of the Record and 'iced not he rev's wed here. Suffice it to say trait the conference was nndoubtt edly the most successful held sine' e the National Perk Service was flat inaugurated. The attrnptlons of rho n nineteen aeti~nel petits and the n1inurons nel Penal monuments under the lurisdietlon of the Lenarti ment of the Interior are varied and diverse. Bat the nroblems of eaterto the millions of people who

come a-nneally to see them end gain insp i ration th erefrom ''re s much the same in ell the ne rice,, hence the superint i relents !wee much to gaie through annual ccsembleges wherein past etyneriv enees may he reviewed, fnt,ire t plans di.srnesed, nrog eems meties-1 d ant broad policies of serv!ee to the people redefined. I05

ROUTE OF THE PACIF[C CARAVAN

YOS11ITE NATURE NOTN

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F THE PARK SUPERINTENDENTS' TOUR

Day 's Total City, Date. mileage. mileage. s Stockton.... Sept. 24 —.000 J ere:mo (night stop)

Bakersfield. : " 25 —

Barstow (night stop)

Fenner... " 26 —

Kin. ma n (night stop)

Seligman

C.I. and Canyc.n (night stop) " 27

Flagstaff (night stop)

Heil,ror.l< " 29 —

Callan (night stop) " 29

1101 Shlproci< 1202 Slnsa Verdc P ert:

12S i Ale ca Verde N. P, O pt 6 — 12)4 Silv:•rton "

13 :17 ours- (night ',top)

1422 Grand Junction — 1528 'rvcn laver (night stop)

1652 Price e -- 1713 '\ i t (hirtn ( n ght step)

1358 i <an- :). 2038 Yor h m C. 4 slight stop),,

2112 1•'rstir' :

— 2219 Zion '. P(nitht she:)

1s2 '1234 5. 1 rl, rir',alit 'op), ll

2340

— 2479 Ire ow (nght stop), I2 301. 21341 i,t

— 2713 P i s in)

2994 S;o.lttnn " 14

311i Caravan Idea Pinnacles National monument m0- )s Advantage.% Cored over from Hollister in his eretofore it has been customary Studebaker Big Six to pick up the park superintendents to Harry B. Hommon of the United el by train en route to and from States Public Health Service, who li erence. This year the auto has been assigned to the National van idea was adopted, especialPark Service for the development

or the Western superintendents of sanitary systems, and the writer. t staff members. It proved a Superintendent Frank Pinkley of y and advantageous means of the Southwestern National Monusportation, for it not only pints and Mrs. Pinkley joined the +) ght the :members of the park caravan at Ashfork• Ariz., and fly more intimately in touch Colonel John R. White, superinJeach other and what the cou p tendent of Sequoia, with Ranger hrough which they passed, but Ralph Clapp, Mrs. White and daugh- 'enabled them to visit additio n - ter Phyllis, in the colonel's Hudlson :aka en route and gain a more Super-Six joined the party at Grand ) ilete knowledge of what this Canyon, as did also Superintendent.try has to offer its people in end Mrs. J R. Eakin of Grand Can ''way of recreation, education yon, traveling in their Buick. Diinspiration afforded by our sus rector Mather, accompanied by e scenic attractions with their Howard Hays, recently of the Yel-,1leirents :f natural history. lowstone camps, traveling by train•, ' bile the tour of the Pacific caught up with the motor cavalcade t caravan technically started at Gallup, N. M., from whence six rater lake when Colonel and machines moved forward over the Charles Goff Thomson malast leg of the journey to Mesa dawn to Medford in their Verde. t touring ear bearing 17, S. N. On the homeward journey via the license plate No. 45, and picked northern route a caravan of seven 'Iir, and Mrs. Bert H. Murrell of machines started out of Mesa tlhud, it didnt assume real ea-aVerde. Supt. Horace M. Albright of proportions until Fresno was Yellowstone and his party, travelched. There four automobile ing in a Lincoln, dropped out of the ties were assembled. Snperincaravan at Ouray and Supt. Roger,dent W. R Lewis came from W. Toll of Rocky Mountain Naoemite in his big Lincoln bearing tional Park, located near Denver, • Lewis, Park Naturalist Carl also hit for home, leaving five ears, Russell end Mrs. Russell and those of Superintendents Lewis, : tiger James V. Lloyd, the ()VIWhite and Thomson, Custodian 1 photographer of the expedition, Hawkins and Chief Naturalist Ansel;her Morse came from Los AnF Hail, who was traveling in a )es in Director Mather 's Packard Buick roadster with Artist Gunnar Right Eight to pick up members Widforss as a companion, to conthe park family who were to tinue in the party. At Price, Utah, n the caravan en route, and Colonel Thomson, with Mrs. Thom-, todlan W. I. Ha.wlcins of the son and the Burreils, left the care,Contd. on page i11.

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"The Minarets, Ritter and Banner Peaks, are the highest and finest in the Northern Sierra. " P, ow br J. V. LLLyd

WHY YOSEMITE NEEDS EASTERN ADDITION

By H. C. Bryant What is to be left for those who catch the eye everywhere, and have sea,. the wild places? Such is the much to do with the pinnacle-like uestion continually asked by outpeaks. Whereas the Yosemite reu1'-doors people who are perturha-d gion is' almost entirely of light eel- ',vs : the continual encroachment •,t ored granite, this area is colorful civilization into the out-of-the-way and distinct from that found within places. America is one of the few the [ark. In the Devil's Post Pile countries where the solution of this region there is much volcanic eviproblem is being undertaken. No cleave. even to the extent of hot country in the world has so many springs, The Post Pile itself is a ational parks, and no other nation woriderfully fine example of basalhas been as thoughtful of those whe tic columns. Typical lava and large wish recreation out of doors Yet, areas of pumice are near at hand. looking towrud the future, the piesSeveral soda springs compare faent National Park System seems ins vorably with those of the Tooladequate. Many biologists feel that un±ne Meadows region. The Mincontinual introduction of exotic erettes, Ritter and Banner peaks plants and animals and continued are the highest and finest in the spoliation of flora and fauna will Northern Sierra. All have permaleave few places where native neat banners of snow, and their plants and animals can be found In jagged crests appeal strongly. their natural environment. The Mount Ritter is higher than any Ecological Society of America is peak within Yosemite National actively urging the setting aside of Park, certain areas showing typical plants or animals before the march of Ilniryue Forma of Plant Life civilization destroys the pristine The plant life of the area just beauty and eliminates the possibileast cf the park is practicelly the ity of worth-while biological same as that found in the Yosemite studies. region. However, the eastern flank It might seem to many that Yoor tl a Sierra furnishes several semite National Pat'k, comprising unique forms typical of the Great over a thousand square miles of Gash] flora. The pinyon pine and territory is sufficiently large at the the white columbine are typical present time, but with the above exz' m p 1 e s. Tali larkspur and viewpoint, there might be good team°r '1'-`hood are conspicuous along sans for enlarging it. Furthermore, the headwaters of the San Joaquin. it should be remembered that a interesting Alpine plans are, of large a.-ert to the eastward of the ccitese, found around the series of present park was once within its w'on'derfully high peaks. boundaries, but was thrown out on In some Places sheep have been the plea of mining men, who grazed to such an extent that the claimed that a rich mining district mcticows look more like pastures could not he developed if the area than flower gardens. As has been were kept within the park boonshown in many instances the nadary. ' No mining developments of live plant life of a meadow may be any importance having taken place, almost completely changed by overand the area being so attractive graeirg. from a recreational point of view, Tc one acquainted with the there has been considerable agitaahuridanee of deer and their tame, Ron in recent years for a return to Hess ino-ide of a park, it was a stun the park of some of this territory. prise to note the scarcity and the An official party investigated the wildness of the animals in an area possibilities this last summer and wt ere hunting is allowed. Alwere impressed with the need for though a careful search was made its inclusion This report, based on ter tracks and other evidence of the investigation, will not treat of large game it was quite apparent the opposition which will come from that a wholly protected area allows ' the owners of claims and the users game to increase. To place the of grazing privileges, but, on the headwaters of the middle fork of other hand, will deal with the poaithe San Jogquin inside the borders tive side of the question as relates of Yosemite National Park would to the need for better protection of enlarge the present area, which fauna and Wore cotitiitutes a game refuge. Several Geological Features of the Area Greet Basin forms of birds and The most unique feature of the mammals to be found along the region Is to be found In its eastern flank, as for instance, the geology. Old metamorphic rocks pinyon jay and two.species et' are superimposed on g ran 1 t e. ehipmaeks, would be added to the Schlsts and slates in bright colors park's fauna,

Alen Abounds in fish and need planting very badly. aeatriitul I.nkees Because of its unique geology, The whole area abounds in beaupicturesque high peaks, wonderful Iifnl lakes, A series of three along lakes and interesting fauna and the east flanks of the higher peaks Gera, the area to the eastward of are' particularly notable—Shadow, l oe mite Natienal Park is worthy Garnet and Thousand Island. of the best protection that can be Gulden trout from the Mount Whitafforded. Under present adminiscey tegior. have been planted in trance' the area can be com mersonce of thee.e kites and in some of ciaUzed, forests can be cut and the. streams, and they appear to be grazing privileges said. So distinethriving. Certainly this area sh' uld tive an area should be carefully appeal to any angler, and there are preserved for recreation altd oducafew places where the rainbow is Hen From the viewpoint of a more abundant end where intronaturalist there is urgent need of ouced species furnish better sport triaging this Interesting territo.y In lakes. Furthermore, there are with iii the administration of the 'natty that lakes which contain no a tie nal park service,

ORIOLE COMPLAINS OF MIMICRY ON PART OF STELLAR JAY

By Mabel Hibbard The 'oriole in question occupies The following week when Mite daily an airy, large cage, placed Hibbard drove into Yosemite she during the daytime on a cot under stopped it Midway. renewing m'ma black oak in Camp 14. She is cities of her lost oriole. Truth bebut a late arrival in Yosemite, having stranger then tictien. Miss Oriing tonic via the Wawona road from ole was at the email store where Kerman, fifteen miles west of h+iresshe became lost. The two men in no, in the San Joaquin valley. charge said of her that the followThe complainant in the case of ing morning after the incident at Oriole versus Jay is the feathered about 7 o'clock she had politely mcompanion of Mabel Hibbard, the traduced herseit from a rafter above science teach in the Kerman Union the counter of the store, and willHigh School, and has the distinction. in.gly accepted a.•ord€:rl invitation probably, of being the only oriole to to breaiaf+let. In return for the inmake two trips into the en :l]ey this terest, admiration and wonder -he summer, awakened in the minds of all cueShe began her life as a waif, since tome] s, she had remained it welcome she fell from her nest at too tender attest with full freedom of the an age and came, just at the pinplace. feather stage. to Miss Hibbard, unNow the oriole comes into court der whose careful nurture she his a gainst the st.11at jay, testifying developed into a beautiful, graceful that he has perched himself debird. liberate :y day after day un a branch Were it not for cite fact that the of her tree, listening in upon the jay possesses a sup e rlative measure friendly confidential cenverseti•'ns of masculine perfection, we should between herself and Mist; H. Withsay off hand, that the slender, deliout giv i ng any inkling of hi: incrrte beauty of the complainant tentions, one morning between the would give her a favorable verdict tours of 4 and 5, when the camp from any beauty-loving jury In was wrapped in deepest,lumber, he contrast to his cocksure, rather inperched himself upon n branch of solent attitude. she is demure and her tree Just over Miss H.'a cot and sweet; not strikingly but noticeably repeatedly mimicked the oriole's golden—having breast, wings and confidential tones with Miss H.—at tail on the under side a soft gray once causing that lady to waken dusted with pale yellow Her head from sound slumber and in alarm and rump are an olive green and t'egin looking for the oriole in the her wings dark -gray above. tree above. Having accomplished The oriole's first trip to the velhis facetious morning trick, the.jay ley was five weeks ago when she flew to a nearby tree, where h.• incame on a truck as mascot to a pardulged in most. unseemingly laughty of twenty Camp Fire Girls. On ter at her expense. the way out, at a little store called Miss Oriole claims that her song Midway, while out of her cage, she is strictly her own personal proper1-raceme confused and flew in the ty and claims that though not prodark into some tall trees, becoming tected by statutes her rights under completely lost from her party in the common law of nature should be a veritable bird paradise. and are strictly protected.

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PARK SUPERINTENDENTS ' TOUR.' (Contd. from o. i_oti.l and,headed north for -.Crater, Which Park Is Bestf •.via Salt Lake and Klamath The second query, which. attrac- •, cutting the size of the party tion of the National Park Service is four machines. -These. cars vis-greatest? cannot be answered fairly d Bryce and Zion :canyons and or Without a deal of explanation north rim of Grand. canyon. toand finally it's merely 'a matter of her and moved on via St. George, personal opinion_ and preference, lih and.. Las Vegas, Nev., to Baranyway. Let the questioner underW, where the White and Hall stand first, that the parks are all n deflected to Los Angeles. leavdifferent, that each line its own inthe Lewis and Hawkins madividuality and specialties, and that Lee to continue to Fresno, where comparisons arc for the most part •y separated and the happy party futile. oke up. From the standpoint of vastness Are the Roads? of spectacle, of course, there is he wonder journey from Stocknothing thus far known that can -to-Stockton covered just 3115 rank with the Crand Canyon of the ilea in six states, or practically Colorado, The canyon is overqwidth of the continent from San whelming—breath taking.. It inrancisco to New York via the Linspires awe and reverence and stirs Oln highway. In reviewing the religious emotion. That mighty Ip several questions obtrude C.I.,nyon, with its tremendous array emselves. Two are uppermost in of temples and its mystery of light e minds of the California reader. and color, has been described as th, rat, how are the roads? Second, earth's subliinest spectacle. He hat was the greatest thing you who could conceive a more heavenw on the trip, or what did you ly picture must be possessed of ke best? more than an artist's imagination The first question is easily anlhe Ltyuisite Renuay of iiryoe Wered by stating "good, bad and F,ir real exquisite beauty, there is different." Of course each classiperhaps nothing in America to corns cation has its various shades and pare with Bryce Canyon, Utah. Im- •grees. After having traveled agine, if you can, a colossal ice rough Arizona, New Mexico Colocream brick with its layeres of do. Utah and Nevada however, cream in several colors horizontally n Californian has license to cumplaced. Then s prinkle a patter of lain against any road mountain water upon the top surface until r otherwise, to be found in the You have eroded portions of the olden State. Excepting for a few brick, leaving on almost countle s Iles in the vicinity of Gallup, succession of spires and fantastic M,. and Salina, Utah in the Ianft'rmations. Such is Bryce' Canyon. tinge of Octavus Ray Cohen, paved For mass of detaiI, delicacv of for lahwa'vs "simply ain't," along the !nation and freshness of enlor Bryc e Opts traversed by the park party in without rival, unless i, ue Ceaar mountain sheep trail in calif'srBreaks, which is but another Bryce la would make some of those New a smaller scale. Bryce is lane ex'eo and Utah roods turn green in its appearance and, seemingiy, ltd' envy, And vet there were dirt as fragile as tine porc elain Reds loads across the deserts of the pinks, creams and whites predomiOuthwest whereon the motorist late in the color schemes. The OUld do fortv-five and fifty miles strata of color are as clearly deer hour without danger or diefined as in a Iaver -ake. Stan-l ing Omfort, on the brink of Bryce, Colonel Soh' TJIRt Mojave Speedway R. Wh ite who had been led nn In the. Mojave desert n Califorblindfolded for his first view, eeIfia. between Moiave and Barstow, clai^'ed: "This is lilt=. geeing upon L dry lake bottom, roate,d with ii h 's tit,'l. though highly painted orax stretches for miles in every woman with whom you can not rection, smoother than asphalt resist falling in love." Sind without a track on it. Here tim Zuni the To i en,ite of R"v,'' 1"^•'h niOtorist can test out his car and Z'on r'a7uyon l i ke Yosem'i, is a diet out of it all the speed of which region that invitee vnu to 'iratefarts 1t'.is capable. If your speedometer falls to register above sevents'ivn

and commune. The new (-eh Minted miles its' hour. you may never Utah Canyon is perhaps Yi,s eml'c's.know lest how fast you have troyne're't roueterpait althn 'eh the, clod. lt ' s ortvir"i nn I"e It t walls are of sands'on~ firstti of you are headed enetweril t eite and are of ihrs natural sneedwav be ewarre of gran high colorng +'fie sWale which leaps at you,mi m'.ete g' of the twi r l': ".y:.,c nn'e

aware as you near the eastern edg' est tones of _eras, and brown to o n tif the lake.bottom. Tt-'s a hear. found in the canyon ofthtMer-ed. Two tragedies are said to ba n e „i'The walls of the inn” n of t`e '' -

eurred at this point. Tn real wI gin river (7, o" are not • mrteas weather, whi^h seldom conies,in hi h as Yo°smite, but th.Cy are Mo.iave the bottom beennee trenchg Brous for speed. In the words of plenty high at gentit *ao,;•nean Stauffer of Stockton "it's like

'he-' seem even hi gher. h' c ass -the driving through rnft soap." valley is considerably narrower;roil

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Ydii)~'1Ti MATU&I NeT $ the visitor finds himself closed in. Mile after mile as the motor El (4obernado, or "The Great White hummed up through beautiful greed Throne," the most noted monolith valleys and across mountain passes, in Zion. rises 3100 feet in perpenthe path was stream lined with gold. Never has the writer seen dicular line above the floor of the such forests of aspen in such auvalley. The lower portion is brick tumn splendor. The tree trunks are red, the upper white. At its upper tall and straight and silvery. end, the valley narrows to a box "Wands of silver crowned with canyon, not more than 30 feet wide gold," Colonel White called them. The colonel has a poet's soul. and its full width covered by the Fames Are High Virgin's bed. "The Angel's LandThe mountains are high, the tug," "The Great Organ," "The peaks ranging up to 14,000 feet anu Temple of S 1 nawav at, " "The over. Two passes were crossed, on.• Streaked Wall," "Vermillion Cliff," ll,300 feet in altituds, the other Twin Brothers" and "The Three 10,500. A third, Cascade Divide, Patriarchs," the latter very remtwas 9520 feet, but stignrly under niscent of Yosemite, are expressive Tfoga. names given to individual mownSilverton and Ouray are said to talus and cliffs be among the richest mineralized Mesa Verde National park is, of spots on the face of the earth. This course, primarily noted for its inis Colorado's celebrated mining district. Between Silverton and Ouray. tensely interesting cliff dweller speetacu;ar highway engineering ruins, of which more will be writhas provided a roadway, carved ou. ten in a later issue of the Out-Door of granite, along high shalt lines Section. but as before stated. 1t is quite similar to California's Tioga_ entitled to hold rank as a national At one point the cliff road spans park from -the mere standpoint of a box canyon on a high concrete aeauty and individuality of scenery bridge under which a rushing alone. std earn flows from a beautiful North The Rim and the Kalbab m waterfall. At another point the The triptakes the Rim of Grand road passes through a tunnel, bored Canyon takes the visitor through in granite. Ouray, a mining to"" the wonderful Kaibab forest, set in a great amphitheater -whose which was set aside as a national walls rise above 13,000 feat, Justly forest and game refuge by orderafter wears the title "Gem of the the late Theodore Roosevelt after Rockies." the then President had crossed the One, of course, cannot cover a which preceded r To t e on the cable 3000-mile tourney comprehensively which the suspension in one newspaper article. The ltiigh bridge, and explored that densely spots only can be touched. Such a wooded region in hunt of game. trip entails something of hardship The Kaibab has become almost a especially if taken during the sumhousehold word mince so much was written and published concerning mar months when the deserts are attempts to drive 30,000 mule tall torrid. The park superintendents deer off the overgrazed area last making, the tour in autumn escaped year to save them from starvation. the extreme temperatures but inThe forest consists largely of curred heavy risks of storm. Only western yellow pine, spruce, fir those acquainted with the torrenand quaking aspen. One may drive dial conditions which prevail after for fifty miles through the forest, rains in the great Southwest can which is remarkable not for the appreciate what that means. The exceptional size and beauty of erosion is simply tremendous and timber, but for the very unexpectroads are cut to ribbons. The earaedness of the forest. The metorist van, fortunately, found itself climbs out of a hot desert upon a usually three days behina a rtorm heavily wooded platen u. which or just heating it ahead of one. rises to an altitude of 8000 feet or Only during two days was driving approximately 1000 feet hi her in rain or with skid chains neces than the South Rim of Grand.nn_ sary. But the discomforts of the

yon at El Tovar. The atmosphere Journey were really few indeen sun Is cool and inviting. The woods were so far outweighed by its aware alive with deer. Here also is preme delights that they are now found the Kaibab squirrel, a diealmost completely forgotten, In tinctive fellow with tufted ears, retrospect. the tour presents one black coat and great white tall. thought, the message given to The The Gorgeous Beauty Youth by the Corn Maidens in the of the Roadies eremoninl piny "Fire" presented One of the high lights of the tour by the Navajo Indiana at Mesa was the afternoon ride from Verde under the direction of Mrs. Durango to Ouray through the Jesse Nusbaum: Rockies of Southern Colorado. The "all is beautiful: writer has seen no autumn color- "All is beautiful; lag in California to compare with "All Is beautiful indeed :" the gorgeousness of that region. And all WAS beautiful.

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HE YOSEMITE NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION ITS PURPOSES

To gather and disseminate information on the wild-life of the Sierras. To develop and enlarge the Yosemite Museum (in co eration with the National Park Service) and to establish subiary units, such as the Glacier Point lookout and branches of

imilar nature. 3. To promote the educational work of the Yosemite Nature Guide Service. To publish (in cooperation with the U. S. National Park Service) "Yosemite Nature Notes ". To study Iiving conditions, pastand present, of the Indians of the Yosemite region. T o maintain in Yosemite Valley a library of hiftorical, scientific, and popular interest. ▪To further scientific investigation along lines of greategt popular interest and to publish, from time to time, bulletins of non-technical nature. To strictly, limit the activities of the association to purposes which shall be scientific and educational, in order that the organization shall not be operated for profit.

MAY WE SEND YOU EACH ISSUE OF YOSEMITE NATURE NOTES?

Your check for $2.0o sent to the Park Naturalist, Yosemite ational Park, will help to pay the cost of its publication for ne year and make you a member of the Yosemite Natural history Association for the same period.

PROM THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON OUT-DOOR RECREATION

Called by PRESIDENT COOLIDGE r'THAT THE CONFERENCE ENDORSE NATURE STUDY IN SCHOOLS

ND THE EXTENSION OF THE NATURE STUDY IDEA TO EVERY ERICAN SCHOOL AND FAMILY;... THAT THE ESTABLISH, ENT OF MUSEUMS OF NATURAL HISTORY IN NATIONAL PARII

LL INCREASE THE EDUCATIONAL RECREATIONAL VALUE OF THl ARxs ".—Resolution of the Conference.

W.B.Lawis Superintendent Yosemite National Park A.F.HAr,I, Chief Naturalist

U.S.N.P.S YOSEMITE EDUCATIONAL STAFF

PERSONNEL 1925.P.RussuLL, Park Naturalist, U.S.N.P.S. D.D.McLEAN, Assistant Park Naturalist, ' American Association of Museums HERBERT MAIER, Executive Agent American Association of Museums ETHEL MCMURCHIB, Secretary, U.S.N.P.S. NATUkE GUIDES H.C.BRyANT, N.P.S.

ENID MICHAEL, N.P.S. M,B.NICHOLS, N.P.S. L.K. WILSON, N.P.S.

R.D.HARwo0D, N.P.S.

DAVID KECK

Sierra Club and Yosemite Natural History Association

R.S.ELLSWORTH

Yosemite Park and Curry Co, R.C.Ross American Association of Museums