Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Collection |
Permanent |
Catalog Number |
1982.079.008 |
Object Name |
Periodical |
Title |
Nature Notes / Rocky Mountain National Park / October 1932 / Volume V, Number X |
Scope & Content |
White paper cover titled "Nature Notes / Rocky Mountain National Park / October 1932 / Volume V / Number X" in black printed text. Features black and white photograph of three saw-wheat owlets with caption "young saw-wheat owlets / courtesy Nature Magazine" and the Rocky Mountain National Park seal with a big-horn sheep. Contents include rambling thought on nature, squirrels and hummers, field notes, ancient lore, looking down on a rainbow, rocky mountain owls, falls in Black Canyon, concerning ants, hunting season, and lessions in biology (plant or animal?). Also features 4 photographs. Page 97 has stamp "National Park Service / Library / Crater Lake National Park" in black ink. 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, 1932 Rocky Mountain National Park with picture of young Saw-whet Owls on cover. Vol5 No 10. pages 97-108. Marks: on first page stamped "National Park Service/ Library/ Crater Lake National Park" |
Creator |
Department of the Interior |
Other Creators |
Estes Park Trail Gazette |
Copyrights |
There are no copyright restrictions on this publication. Preferred citation, "Courtesy of the Estes Park Museum, Nature Notes Collection." |
Caption |
1982.079.008 |
Language of Material |
English |
Search Terms |
1930s Rocky Mountain National Park National Park Service Estes Park Estes Park Trail-Gazette Owl Nature Notes Nature Wildlife Hunting Squirrels bird Black Canyon Waterfalls Insects Rocky Mountain Nature Association |
Subjects |
Rocky Mountain National Park Department of the Interior Wilderness Wildlife Naturalist observations |
People |
Fraser, Bert Kearns, William E. Ross, Billie Humphrey, Alice Yeager, Dorr G. Baxter, Ray 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. |
Dates of Creation |
1932 |
System of arrangement |
Items are arranged chronologically. |
Updated |
2025-07-15 |
Date |
October 1932 |
Dates of Accumulation |
1930s |