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to be found than a wood rat running up squirrel-like the walls of 

 the house in the dead of the night. 



Well it is late, and as tomorrow is Saturday., I must rise early 

 and walk six miles to mail this and other letters, and bring back 

 sundry articles to last until another Saturday. 



The Nature Guide Movement 



i'iiwio by Boysen's Studio 



A field excursion under one of the Nature Guides in Yosemite National 

 Park. The familiar outlines of the Yosemite Valley Rim shows in the back- 

 ground beyond the forest on the valley floor. 



The Nature Guide Movement work in Yosemite was utilized during July 

 by 1 1 09 people daily. It is an outgrowth of similar work observed during 

 recreation surveys of Norway and of Switzerland by a member of the Board of 

 Directors of the Playground and Recreation Association of America. Out of 

 the observations has come several concepts : 



(i) The California Nature Study League, which supplies items concerning 

 the ever changing pageant of nature to over 5000 schools, library centers. Boy 

 Scout troops, and similar organizations throughout California. 



(2) The offering of free nature study libraries at summer, also winter resorts. 



(3) The Nature Guide Movement referred to above. Here highpower 

 biologists from the Universities make plain to summer resort visitors the stories 

 of the miracles of the out-of-doors. The work in Yosemite National Park this 

 year is under the joint auspices of the National Park Service, of the Federal 

 Government, of the California Fish and Game Commission, which is the state 

 body charged with the conservation of the wild life there, and the California 

 Nature Study League, the latter a volunteer organization which advocates and 

 supports such concepts as the above, until the Federal or State Governments 

 undertake them as a matter of government policy. 



