Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Collection |
Permanent |
Catalog Number |
1982.079.025 |
Object Name |
Periodical |
Title |
Nature Notes from Rocky Mountain National Park / January 1934 / Volume VII, Numbers I, II, and III |
Scope & Content |
Pale green paper cover titled "Nature Notes... / from Rocky Mountain National Park / Volume VII / January 1934 / Nos 1-2-3" in red and black printed text. Features a black and white photograph of an Avocet bird with caption "Avocet / courtesy Chicago Academy of Sciences" in printed black text. Text on bottom edge of cover reads "The trailside is an open book for those who wish to read it" in printed black text. Contents include more about glaciers, for fisherman only, deer talking to water, other campfires, do we still have wolves?, deserted, more about the deserted cabin, our trees as recorders of the weather, a debt repaid, some interesting Wild Basin notes, the development of landscape, interesting facts about grasses, the E.C.W. (emergency conservation work) and conservation, and game and overgrazing. Also features 7 photographs. Publication information: Published by the Department of the Interior in conjunction with the Estes Park Trail Gazette. Series was published monthly and then quarterly. Printed by the Trail Gazette. "Estes Park Trail, Estes Park Colorado" printed on reverse cover. Only front cover scanned. |
Physical characteristics |
Nature Notes, January, 1934 Rocky Mountain National Park on green paper cover with picture of Avocet. Vol 7 Nos 1-2-3. Pages 99-134. Two punched holes. |
Creator |
Department of the Interior |
Other Creators |
Estes Park Trail Gazette |
Custom Field 01 |
Nature Notes |
Copyrights |
There are no copyright restrictions on this publication. Preferred citation, "Courtesy of the Estes Park Museum, Nature Notes Collections." |
Caption |
1982.079.025 |
Language of Material |
English |
Search Terms |
1930s Estes Park Estes Park Trail-Gazette Rocky Mountain National Park Nature Notes Nature Wildlife Wild Basin Glacier Fishing Deer Trees Plants Conservation Birds |
Subjects |
Rocky Mountain National Park Department of the Interior Wildlife Wilderness Naturalist observations |
People |
Qualm, Louis O. Potts, Merlin Moomaw, Jack C. Ratcliff, Harold M. Moinat, Arthur Rogers, Edmund B. |
Admin/Biographical History |
Each issue comprises short vignettes by ranger-naturalists about natural and cultural park topics. Yosemite Nature Notes and Yellowstone's contemporaneously-spawned and eponymously-titled iteration (1921-1958) provided the first models for other such publications throughout the National Park System. This type of publication was a common interpretative tool in the mid-twentieth century within the National Park system. Parks with a Nature Notes program included Mount Rainier National Park (1923-1939), Grand Canyon National Park (1926-1935), Zion/Bryce Canyon National Park (1920s-1930s), Glacier National Park (1920s-1930s), and Acadia National Park (1930s). There is scant compiled information about the park-wide Nature Notes programs. Although not all articles are attributed to a particular author, it is possible to track the career of frequent contributors in those that are. Issues feature the writing of Jack Moomaw, Ruth Ashton Nelson, Dorr Yeager, William Kearns, Dean T. Cornwall, Wendell S. Wilson, and others. |
Access Conditions |
There are no restrictions on access. |
Reference code |
NNC 01 |
Dates of Creation |
1934 |
Updated |
2025-08-19 |
Date |
January 1934 |
Dates of Accumulation |
1930s |