September 1927

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HUBERT WORK, SECRETARY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE STEPHEN T. MATHER, DIRECTOR YOSEMITE NATURE NOTES VOL. VI SEPTEMBER, 1927 NO. 9

This is the official publication of the Educational Department of Yosemite National Park. It is published each month by the National Park Service with the cooperation of the Yosemite Natural History Association, and its purpose is to supply dependable information on the natural history and scientific features of Yosemite National Park. The articles published herein are not copyrighted as it is intended that they shall be freely used by the press. Communications should be addressed to C. P. Russell, Park Naturalist, Yosemite National Park, California.

E. P. LEAVITT

Acting Superintendent

"LEARN TO READ THE TRAIL-SIDE" YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, CALIF. 1917

A PERSONAL INVITATION. YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK IS YOURS! WE OF THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WANT TO HELP YOU TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH YOUR PARK

AND TO UNDERSTAND IT IN ITS EVERY MOOD. ALL OF THE FOLLOWING SERVICE IS OFFERED TO YOU free BY YOUR GOVERNMENT: Visit the Yosemite Museum! Here you will learn the full story of the Park ---- what tools were used by the great Sculptor in carving this mighty granite-walled gorge; who lived here before the white man came; how the Days of Gold led to Yosemite's discovery; how the pioneers prepared the way for you; and how the birds and mammals and trees and flowers live together in congenial communities waiting to make your acquaintance. Plan your trail trips on the large scale models in the Geography Room. The Yosemite Library in the museum provides references on all phases of Yosemite history and natural history. Popular lectures on Yosemite geology and other branches of natural history are given by nature guides at scheduled times each day. The nature guide on duty will be more than willing to answer your questions on any subject.

Go Afield with a Nature Guide ! Take advantage of this free service that will help you to know your Park A competent scientist will conduct you over Yosemite trails, and from him you may learn first hand of the native flowers, trees, birds, mammals, and geological features. See Schedule of Nature Guide Field Trips. Visit Glacier Point Lookout! From there you will obtain an unexcelled view of Yosemite's High Sierra. The binocular telescope will bring Mt. Lyell to within one third of a mile from where you stand; you can recognize friends climbing trails several miles away. The Nature Guide in attendance will help you to operate it and will explain what you see. A small library is at your command. You will enjoy the informal nightly campfire talks given here. Attend the Nature Guide Campfire Talks! In addition to the museum lectures members of the educational staff give talks as a part of the evening program at Camp Curry and Yosemite Lodge. Non-technical explanations of how Yosemite came to be; what you may expect of Yosemite bears; how the local Indians lived; what birds you see about your camps; what trout you will catch in Yosemite waters; how you may best visit the wonderland of the summit region; and scores of similar subjects are given by the National Park Service Nature Guides.

ALL OF THESE OPPORTUNITIES ARE PROVIDED FREE OF CHARGE BY YOUR GOVERNMENT. —TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THEM—

Volume VI September 30, 1927 Number 9 The Yosemite Museum Flower Show By Mabel E. Hibbard The 1927 flower season is nearly over in the Yosemite National Park. Jack Frost is making his annual stride down from the high country, and under the glistening tapestry laid for his footfall, the flowers begin their long retreat. Some abandon altogether the upper stories of their dwellings. These upper stories sway sere and tenantless before the wind, while the living elements remain snugly in the cool cellars. Some kiss their precious seed babies goodbye and are themselves content to be no more. Wrapped in the gleaming frost blanket, their pale ghosts peer wanly into the face of the morning sun for a few days or weeks, until kindly oblivion beckons them away. Some flowers give the impression that never again will they don leaves and blossoms, but even now they are behind closed leaf-bud doors, studying the loveliest early spring fashions in coloring and design, while they dream of May. We anticipate. This is only a Keeping the display Fresh prophecy for the Yosemite valley at Many questions have been asked present, a prophecy now being fulconcerning the exhibit, some of filled in the upper regions of the which we will answer Sierra, but all too surely within the "Do you put in fresh flowers next two months to be completely every day?" fulfilled even upon the floor of the Few days pass without some fresh valley. blossoms finding their way to the All summer long, in gay processtand. Flowers differ so much in sion, flowers have graced the stand ability to keep fresh after being cut. on the rear porch of the Yosemite Even with the utmost care being Museum, each in its own vase, lendtaken to gather them early in the ing its particular color to the harmorning and to place them at once mony of the whole. Purples, blues, in a vasculum containing dampened lavenders, yellows, whites and reds, paper., some flowers begin to wither all hues imaginable, displaying rival almost as soon as picked. These. spectrum, tints of matchless beauty although they serve to display a to the sun. Practically every flower species to the public. must obviousfamily sent representatives. Some ly be replaced by fresh blossoms four hundred different species of each morning. Some flowers which shrubs, trees and flowers have from appear most delicate often surprise time to time formed a part of the one with their vitality. A specibrilliant galaxy that has daily armen of Woodland Star (Tellima rested the admiring attention of scabrella), whose cinnamon brown every museum visitor. stalk was scarcely thicker than

coarse sewing thread, and whose Pohono trail, the Eagle Peak trail, delicate white, five-petaled flower or the Little Yosemite trail. Each measured hardly a quarter of an of these are trips to the rim, 7000 inch across, put forth blossom after to '7500 feet elevation, and each blossom from tiny, closed buds, and trail in some portion will usually remained a thing of beauty for parallel conditions on some part of much longer than a week. another trail, so that flowers col- "Who gathers the flowers?" is lected from any one of these will another often-asked question. be specimens that might, with cerAll of the nature guides are very tain exceptions, have come from in flowers and bring in one of the other trails. Conditions interested change over each of these trails fine specimens from their trips. from early spring to late autumn. Then, once each week, a nature so that as some flowers pass to guide is particularly assigned to seed others take their places in the special flower duty and makes a beautiful flower pageant _which flower collecting trip. sweeps from the foothills to the An almost daily query is, "How highest mountain peaks during one do you keep the flowers so fresh?" comparatively brief season_ The stand is especially constructThe flowers that have remained ed so that fresh water is circulatlongest without having to be reing constantly about the cut stems moved for fresh specimens have of the flowers. It is designed in been the very interesting saprothe form of a pyramid of steps, phytic pine drops and the snow beginning at about the height of plant. From June to September 1, three and a half feet, with water only two snow plant specimens trough pans underneath each step. have been used. A protective fine Through these steps at intervals of $25 is placed by the Government are holes (there are at least fiftyupon every snow plant picked, and five), into which fit removable cylfor, this reason the museum is very cylindrical containers for each excareful to use as few as possible hibit. By opening a drain pipe sufupon the stand, setting an example ficiently, all the water leaves the in Conservation to the public. pans, which can then be cleaned. Some of the Flowers Exhibited The feed pipe is then opened until. It is interesting to summarize the the pans are refilled; then both flowers which have appeared most. pipes are left open enough to cause often as exhibits this summer. As a constant flow of fresh water upon nearly as one can estimate from the flower stems. daily contact, these have been: Almost Limitless Meadow pennyroyal, Queen Anne's Variety of Habitat lace, yarrow, giant hyssop, white The next question most commonhedge nettle, farewell-to-spring, ly asked is, Are all these flowers clarkia, columbine, canchalagua, found here?" ' the brodiaeas, the common mimulus, If by "here" the Yosemite valley meadow pentstemon, yawning pent proper is meant, the answer would stemon, St. John's wort, Indian: certainly be "No." From a third to hemp or dogbane, small tiger.lily, a -half,- or perhaps at times even snow plant, pine drops, - Azalea, more, of the flowers are found in slender gilias, self heal, collinsie, the valley itself. The flowers are the dogwoods, knotweeds, pussy always from somewhere in the paws, miners' lettuce, the buckpark, -which gives almost a limitless wheats, wild ginger', alum-root, the variety-, of habitat associations andorchids, evening primrose, enchant elevation from which to draw. The ers' nightshade, Yosemite aster and difficulty is to get specimens fromfleabane daisy. the high country to the flower stand, The rarest visitors to the stand. in a fresh condition. have been, perhaps, the heathers, Aside from, -flowers brought in purple and white, which grow along from the valley floor, most of our the montane streams, the white specimens come from the various columbine, grass of parnassus, trails, as the Ledge trail, the Po- mountain pink, -a montane buels-

wheat, Washington-lily, woodland and gives the appearance of a very star, Sierra primrose, shooting star, small, dark, rich red chrysanthemum, monk's hood, bleeding heart, horselia, Corethrogyne filaginifolia, now-opened wine. The California mountain daisy, Indian soap plant and nutmeg or yew (Torreya californica) the camas lily. was next in interest, a small tree The flower which always arouses growing along the same road near the most intense interest is the the Cascade fall. Its leaves are snow plant; since every one, more needle-like, about an inch long, or less, has heard of the rare and ending in stiff, sharp points, while beautiful plant and comparatively its unripened fruit are smooth, few have had the privilege of se.- green, elliptic bodies from an inch ing it growingin its native pine and a quarter to an inch and three-forests or of seeing a living speci-quarters long. From its wood the men. Indians fashioned their bows, and The flowers and plants concernwith the late revival of interest to ing which the most questions have archery, the wood may shortly bebeen asked are the, Washington come commercially valuable. lily, which grows so strikingly The love of flowers is so general gleaming white in the midst of the on the part of the public that it is chaparral bushes, and the sweetscarcely an exaggeration to say scented bush (Calycanthus occidenthat the flower stand has elicited talis), growing near the checking more interest and admiration. perstation on the El Portal road. haps, than any other one Yosemite It grows upon a medium-sized bush Museum exhibit.

STRANGE " HOMES ON OAKS.

Just to look at an oak, one sees Some of these curious homes are only the oak, but on closer examivery woody, and may be balls, nation, one will find it a teeming small and large, and even wrap little world all its own. Birds, completely around the stem. Other beetles, mites, spiders, midges, balls may be fragile like rare glass moths, butterflies and flies will and colored orange-brown.. These make up its population. have a tiny core in the center for Many of their homes are familthe larva, which is held there by iar to most of us, but some of them fine threads. In the blossoms of are very curious and pass unnothe golden cup oak one may find ticed. These are strange homes of similar, but smaller, balls in which the gall flies. the core is almost as large as the outer portion. Where the aphids have been satSome of the galls take on unusisfied with the turned back lobe ual shapes, such as flat disks like of the black oak, or others have solid wheels; or the balls that are sucked the green juices from the covered with a hairy covering of chlorophyl of the leaves, leaving rose or yellow green. Another is blisters to, show their eating like a tiny spindle perched on the course, these insects must cause a vein or margin of the leaves. One malformation in the plant structure is urn-shaped and apparently only to form their homes hollowed out as a saucer and The female may lay her eggs in hangs down from the under side the stem, the petiole, the leaf, the of the leaf. But most unusual is bud, or even the blossom. When the pagoda-shaped gall of two stothe larvae hatch they exude a juice ries, rounded instead of square- -or substance which causes an abThese hang down with tiny apertures normal growth of plant tissue. This in either story showing where strange structure forms the home the adult has escaped to lay more for the young,until they emerge as eggs, to build new houses all over adults. again.--Rena P. Duthie.

The Belding Ground Squirrel or Picket Pin.

MY ACQUAINTANCE WITH PICKET PINS

By RUTH H. KIRKLAND On August 8 the students of the Yosemite School of Field Natural History trekked over the long trail from Boothe Lake to Tuolumne Meadows. We stopped for lunch where the Evelyn Lake trail drops to the meadows along the Lyell fork of the Tuolumne river. After lunch I went on.by myself but instead of staying on the trail, I wandered along the river which now leaps happily over huge rocks and now meanders smoothly through the meadows which flank its borders for miles. In the course of my ramble, I disturbed a goodly number of Belding ground squirrels and even made speaking acquaintance with a few of them. These little animals have rightly nor for periods. His breath control earned the name of Picket Pins. would have been the envy of many With their tawny coats and their a singer. Finally he did pause in habit of standing rigidly upright on his tirade and in a moment he scuttled away. their hind legs, they closely resemble stakes driven in the ground: SteLater, as I was luxuriating in the ries are told of old prospectors who dappled shade of trees along the walked themselves to death in their stream, I heard faint scratching endeavors to picket their horses to sounds and an occasional tiny these pickets. squeak under a nearby log. The One of these little creatures scampered across my path, paused a scratching progressed under the little, and finally a tiny foot, a little little ways off, perched upright with tawny nose and two beady his forefeet hanging limply down, eyes were pushed under the log. I and fixed me with a disapproving sat as nearly unmoving as possible stare. He stared for a few moments, and the two eyes stared curiously then uttered an inquiring squeak. I and unblinkingly at me for many replied by making a clucking sound. minutes. When I moved, the little He cocked his head on one side and picket pin immediately disappeared. chattered vigorously at me. His dieAlmost instantly its head reapapproval of me was so evident that peared over the top of the log to I laughed at him. He dropped down resume its staring. It bobbed up and on all four feet, bobbed up and down but evidently decided that the diately and launched himself on a languid human under the tree warveritable oration of sharp, squeaky ranted no further attention. He whickerings. As he chattered, he scuttled off a little ways. reared upseemed to pat himself with his foreright, uttered a few disgruntled paws. He paused not for commas and then disappeared.

SOME JOHN MUIR REMINISCENCES

By Mrs. H. J. Taylor Given at the Museum Camp Fire, Yosemite Valley, August 2, 1927 Three hours ago the chairman of the evening asked me to talk at this camp fire for a few minutes on my personal recollections of John Muir. Mr. O'Neil is not well acquainted with me, or he would know that I need at least a week's notice to speak extemporaneously. My early recollections of John grounds. My parents wanted to go Muir are undimmed, but I fear you to the horticultural building, but may find them poorly sorted And in self-defense they took us to the not very well arranged. I can't redumping bed. member when I didn't know John The bed was occupied by two Muir, though I never saw him face small boys, Jimmie Butler and Jimto face. My parents, like his, were mie Carr, who feigned sleep. Jimpioneers on a Wisconsin farm. Our mie Butler, whose younger sister farm was ten miles from Madison later became my classmate in the and south and west of Lake Menuniversity, was the son of Profesdots. The Muir farm was north sor J. D. Butler, whose presence in and east of the lake. In pioneer the Yosemite valley John Muir felt days, neighbors included all whose when he was on Half Dome. (Makfarms we knew, even if they were ing a rapid descent, Muir found him twenty or more miles away, at the hotel, where the professor Mendota lake freezes over, and had arrived but a few hours beon our winter trips to Madison we fore.) At fixed times the bed rose had an eight-mile sleigh ride over suddenly as if bent in the middle. this sheet of ice. Father usually The two boys, thrown forward, pointed out the direction of the landed on their feet and stood wide Muir farm and said, "If that Muir awake in their nightgowns. A boy wants anything, he makes it miracle to us! How often my parfor himself." To many a request parents threatened to get a dumping we received the answer, "The machine to help us rise, but they Scotch boy would make it for himnever did. My own four children self." knew that the final call to rise was. Among the interesting devices "Do you want me to get one of John that Muir made was a bed that Muir's dumping machines to help would dump its occupants out at you up?" I was surprised when rising time. This was to be exthey shouted, "Yes, we'd like it.' hibited at the annual fair at Made Much more effective was my admoson. Our whole family wanted to nition, "If you can't hear me when see it, but ten children can't be I speak, I'll put your head between taken at one time—not that the your ears." Response was instanwagon box wouldn't hold them, but taneous. My children, being normally bright, no farm can't be left alone. Some mally bright, realized the seriousmust remain at home to do ness of such an operation. that indefinable, all-comprehensive, Muir's Room at College never-ending task on a farm known My husband's oldest brother atas "chores." My brother just older tended the University of Wisconsin than I, who had been to school one with John Muir and occupied the term, was not very rugged. He and room next to his. His tales of I were among those selected to go Muir's unkept room were many. He to the fair. Evidently, neither of us used to say, "Muir is a smart felfigured in doing chores. low, but you can't get beyond his When Horses Displaced the Oxen doorstep, he has so many things We still had Buck and Bright, in process of making all over the our ox team, and we had recently floor." acquired our first team of horses. One of his interesting devices Our latest and most prized possession was a lever that reached to his was a light spring wagon, bookshelf at the hour for study, known as a "Democrat," though as brought down the history or geography a family we were Republicans and placed it on the table, not by any intellectual process, but opened at the lesson page. At the rather by inheritance. end of the time allotted to the We left the farm at sunrise. Sitstudy, the lever closed the book. ting in state in our new Democrat, returned it to the shelf and brought we enjoyed a thrill that no Rolls-down the next, opened at the lesson. Royce could bring today—a fit subject for "Ain't It a Grand and Muir Belonged to the People Glorious Feelin'?" At length we John Muir left Wisconsin before reached Madison and the fair I entered the university. I knew

he had gone to the Sierras. My in- man being has toward the life of terest in him was re-awakened another. Parents are selfish whose when I read his "Boyhood and spirit is to keep their children in Youth." Seven years ago I spent the home corral. And children who my first winter in California in do not get beyond that enclosure Berkeley. Everywhere people spoke are pitiful. for they have not the of John Muir as if he belonged to roots of a growing life. John Muir California, Berkeley in particular by no easy route got out of his All this I inwardly resented. He home enclosure and entered the belonged to Wisconsin, rooted there world. Wherever men and women through pioneer days': He belonged attain in some avenue or in many to its university. Hadn't we but avenue of life a degree of fulness. recently dedicated a granite knoll they are beyond the walls of home..to John Muir? And didn't we own beyond the bounds of state, beyond the finest bust of him, made by the the limit of country. They belong Italian sculptor, Pietro? In time I to the world. began to realize that not California. John Muir belongs neither to but I, was at fault. - How eager California nor to Wisconsin. He we, are to claim as our own the lives that have unfolded abundant-.is not fenced He stands above ly in some avenue or in many avthe timber line.- He belongs to enues! My attitude was human and every one who can catch someand not very unusual. We would thing of the inspiration of his spinhem in and claim as a personal it. He belongs to everyone whose possession lives that have grown heart is deepened, whose mind is universal Selfishness does not lie quickened, whose understanding is in taking the biggest piece of cake broadened because of John Muir's or the choicest bit of fruit. Selfishness is the spirit that one grandeur of things that are natural.

A GLACIER POINT INCIDENT OF THE EIGHTIES

In a book recently published in a tale is told in one of the guide London, called "Leaves from a Vice- books of an antique hen which, for roy's Notebook by the late Lord the satisfaction of a party of visi- Curzon," I find a most interesting tors, was tossed over the precipitous chapter telling of his visit to Yo- bluff, Down and ever down sank semite" in 1887. He pays the valley the hapless fowl till it became a a most glowing tribute, calling it tiny ball of feathers, then a speck. The Valley of the Waterfalls and finally vanished altogether in giving all the Indian names of the the abyss. The spectators, somevarious points and a general what chagrined at this gratuitous description of the adjoining Sierras: sacrifice of animal life, ventured His description of the Wonderful upon a remonstrance, but were met display of flowers is, I regret to with a cheerful reply, "Don't be, say, applicable to those, days when alarmed about the chicken, ladies. there were but few, visitors, to aeshe's used to it. She goes over that stroy them., cliff every day during the season. One of the amusing incidents is The story then relates how the as follows: It might have a headthe course of the afternoon, ening of "Yosemite's Wonderfully same party descending the cliff in Trained Hen :" countered the old hen, uninjured, "Glacier Point is 3257 feet in composedly ascending the trail."— sheer height above the valley and M. Hall McAllister.

SEEING MT. HAMILTON FROM YOSEMITE

To the Editor Yosemite Nature THE PICTURES FROM Notes—Dear Sir: The various artiLICK OBSERVATORY cles published in your monthly are much enjoyed by one who knows Dear Sir : "Intervisability of the valley well. It will be forty Mount Hamilton With the Peaks years next April since I spent my of Yosemite." Referring to this first vacation there (April, 1888) at subject, on which I wrote you on the old Stoneman Hotel, and I have August 25, beg to say that I have kept a record of all my visits to a letter from Prof. W. H. Wright, the valley—seventeen in all—since who took the well known photos of that time. the Yosemite from the Lick ObservOn my second or third visit, I atory. He writes me: remember we were staying at the "Mount Hamilton, old Glacier Point Hotel, and, as was "August 26, 1927. my custom, I used to get up about "There is, of course, no doubt of 4 o'clock in the morning and watch the intervisability of Mount Hamathe sunrise and then take an hour's ton and some of the heights about hike before returning for breakYosemite valley. In particular, I fast. am quite sure the Lick Observatory On one particularly clear morndome can be seen from Sentinel ing, I climbed or walked to the Dome. The pictures you have seen top of Sentinel Dome and then were taken from a point ten or a went up the ladder to the old platdozen feet south of our large dome. form which then stood on top of Part of the observatory building is the Dome. I had a good field glass, undoubtedly obscured, but the dome and I spotted a white mark on the stands clear. Coast Range to the west, which, r "The only difficulty would be in felt, must be the dome of the Mount Hamilton Observatory overlooking seeing the dome against the sky. San Francisco Bay. On my return A red glass would undoubtedly help to the hotel and also when we went out in the observation I climbed down to the valley I asked about it up to Glacier Point during the bolland was informed that it was un- days last winter and could clearly possible to have seen the Lick Ob make out the outline of Mount servatory, as it was out of sight Hamilton, but could not see the "over the hill." I never questioned dome because the sky was very this information until later years, white at the time." when I found that I was correct in Evidently, the above seems to my guess, as the photographs taken about settle this mooted question, by Professor Wright in later years and the next thing to do is to get distinctly show the domes of the some good and enthusiastic photogYosemite from Mount Hamilton, rapher to get a set of photos of and so, if the sun-rays are favorable, the Lick Observatory from the the Lick Observatory should summit of Sentinel Dome. This, be seen easily with the naked eye then, would prove that an airplane or, at least, with a good glass, from could circle high over the Golden the top of either Half Dome, Clouds Gate and see the Yosemite in the Rest or Sentinel Dome. Is the old east. platform still on Sentinel Dome? Also, has anyone of late years reHoping the above is as interestported seeing the Lick Observaing to you as to the writer, I beg tory,? to remain. Yours cordially, M. HALL McALLISTER. M. HALL McALLISTER. San Francisco, California, August San Francisco, California, August 25, 1927. 29, 1927.

MORE ABOUT OUR FAWN PROBLEM BABY DEER NOT

sent Ranger Crawford down to

TO BE DISTURBED.

Soda Springs checking station to As is usually the case at this time get the fawn and order the people of year, Yosemite visitors find it who had it to report in the morn difficult to resist the temptation to ing for further questioning adopt a cunning pet in the form of "Crawford took the little doe up a mule deer fawn. The baby deer to the ranger cabin, examined it have been arriving for some weeks and found there was nothing wrong now and they are to be seen in with it. The people displayed them numbers both on the valley floor ignorance when they tried to feed and in the high country: Even at it rich cow's milk. That night this late date there are some of the Nelson and Crawford fed it diluted mothers about. It is the habit of milk. does to cache their new-born young "In the morning the motorist re for the first week or so of their ported and Ranger Nelson called existence. The little things have Chief Ranger Townsley on the little or no body odor and are not phone, who ordered that the man apt to be picked up by predatory take the animal back to the place animals. Their spotted coats serve where he had picked it up. When as excellent camouflage and it is the man heard what the price not always possible for human eyes would be on the little doe he was to spy them out. The does return willing to make any concession to to their hidden babies frequently to get it back to where it belongedfeed them and it is during this time a mile east of Aspen valley—and of nursing that park visitors are thirty-five miles from the ranger most apt to see them. station by road. Crawford started Park rangers and nature guides out with him and after a wild goose have been urging visitors to haychase which included stops at many have no mistaken ideas about apparently places where the man thought he deserted fawns and fewer cases of had found the animal he finally "adopted" baby deer have occurred found the trail where he had come than in past years. There have out, and there deposited the little been instances of unnecessary com- doe To make sure it was the right passion and the following incident, place Crawford back-tracked him as related by Ranger Crawford is As they put the fawn down on the well worth bringing to notice. ground it gave a little cry. A crack "Ranger Bingaman, in charge of ing in the brush nearby made them Soda Springs checking station. reasonably sure that the mother noticed an animal in the lap of a was still on the job although it had woman in a car passing through his been thirty-six hours since the fawn station. He asked if it was a dog had been removed. and the woman replied. 'No, it is "They started to leave but the a fawn with a broken leg. We are little doe wanted to follow the two going to take it to San Francisco In order to have the fawn remain and have a splint put on the in- there Crawford had the motorist jured limb.' Bingaman reported leave and then he broke brush the facts to Ranger Nelson, who is through which the little doe could in charge of that district, and he not go."

FROM THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON OUT-DOOR RECREATION

Called by PRESIDENT COOLIDGE

THAT THE CONFERENCE ENDORSE NATURE STUDY IN SCHOOLS AND THE EXTENSION OF THE NATURE STUDY IDEA TO EVERY AMERICAN SCHOOL AND FAMILY; THAT THE ESTABLISHMENT OF MUSEUMS OF NATURAL HISTORY IN NATIONAL PARKS WILL INCREASE THE EDUCATIONAL RECREATIONAL VALUE OF THE

PARKS".—Resolution of the Conference.