Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Collection |
Permanent |
Catalog Number |
1982.079.002 |
Object Name |
Periodical |
Title |
Nature Notes / Rocky Mountain National Park / October 1931 / Volume IV, Number V |
Scope & Content |
White paper cover titled "Nature Notes / Rocky Mountain National Park / October 1931 / Volume IV / Number V" in printed brown text. Features brown and white photograph of a pine squirrel with caption "The Pine Squirrel / courtesy Colorado Mountain Club" and the Rocky Mountain National Park seal with a big-horn sheep. Hand-written text in top right corner reads "50409" written in red pencil. Contents include "A friendly coyote", early memories of Louis Papa, Phantom Forest, bears again, antlers and horns, field notes, pine squirrel, Flattop's mystery wall, and a page of comment. Also features two photographs. Page 35 features a stamp with text "National Park Service / Library / Crater Lake National Park". 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. Only front cover scanned. |
Physical characteristics |
Nature Notes, October, 1931 Rocky Mountain National Park with picture of a pine squirrel on front cover. Vol 4 No 5. Pages numbered 35-42. 2 punched holes |
Creator |
Department of the Interior |
Other Creators |
Estes Park Trail Gazette |
Copyrights |
There are no copyright restrictions. Please cite, "Courtsey of the Estes Park Museum." |
Caption |
1982.079.002 |
Language of Material |
English |
Search Terms |
1930s Rocky Mountain National Park Estes Park Estes Park Trail-Gazette Nature Notes Nature Bears Squirrels Coyotes National Park Service Flattop Mountain Phantom Forest Antlers and Horns Wildlife Colorado Mountain Club |
Subjects |
Rocky Mountain National Park Department of the Interior Naturalist observations Wilderness Wildlife |
People |
Yeager, Frances B. Baxter, Ray Ratcliff, Harold M. Yeager, Dorr G. McLaughlin, John S. 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 |
1931 |
System of arrangement |
Items are arranged chronologically. |
Updated |
2025-07-15 |
Date |
October 1931 |
Dates of Accumulation |
1930s |