Weath sege M 1964-1936 National Park Service Founders: George Wright Page 1 of 2 National Park Service National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Find a Park Discover History Explore Nature Working with Communities Get Involved Teachers Kids About Us NPS > History & Culture > People and the National Parks George Melendez Wright - Father of Natural Resource Management See For Yourself Visit some of For Teachers Inside Story the parks that Where in the world In 1929 George Wright George Wright is Tuzigoot? On-line proposed that there be dedicated his teacher resources at established a wildlife field work Acadia National Park survey program for the towards such in cooperation with the National Park Service, as Pinnacles George Wright which would be funded National Society. by him personally until Monument in the program's value California, or Wright Mountain at Fort could be demonstrated. Union National Monument in New Mexico, named after George Wright Places People In 1927 George Wright joined the Who was George Melendez Wright? National Park Service as assistant park Wright's contributions are distinguished by a naturalist at Yosemite National Park. keen perception of ecological problems: he George Melendez Wright was born in recognized that, even then, protected areas San Francisco, California, June 20, were not biological islands that can stand aloof 1904. At the University of California, from the rest of the world. Importantly, he Berkeley, he majored in forestry. More also grasped the significance of long-term places human influences on the North American landscape. More people Stories Preserving Nature in the National Parks details the growth and development of the Collections park system during the 1920s, the rise of Thomas Moran's vision of the biological science within the Park Service, and Western landscape was critical to the the bureau's triumphs in recreational planning creation of national parks. His pencil and development during the New Deal, the and watercolor field sketches and ideas of George Wright began to take shape. paintings captured the grandeur and More stories documented the extraordinary terrain and natural features of great western landscapes. More collections. Preservation In the tradition established George Learn More Wright, the Conservation Study Institute was established to help the A Remarkable Inheritance, Telling the Story of America's National Park Service and its partners stay in Parks touch with the evolving field of Explore the legacy of George Wright conservation and develop more sophisticated partnerships and new tools and strategies. More preservation.. http://www.nps.gov/history/bestideapeople/wright.html 1/23/2010 National Park Service: Faunal Page 1 of 1 Books UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FAUNA RAY LYMAN WILBUR, Secretary OF THE NATIONAL PARKS - INITER STATES NATIONAL PARK SERVICE HORACE M. ALBRIGHT, Director Fauna Series No. 1 FAUNA OF THE NATIONAL PARKS Cover OF THE Contents UNITED STATES Foreword Approach A PRELIMINARY SURVEY Methods OF FAUNAL RELATIONS IN NATIONAL PARKS Analysis Conspectus By GEORGE M. WRIGHT, JOSEPH S. DIXON Suggested Policy BEN H. THOMPSON Photographs by Joseph S. Dixon except otherwise indicted CONTRIBUTION OF WILD LIFE SURVEY FAUNA SERIES NO. 1 - MAY, 1932 OF DEPARTMENT THE SECURITY mancit 1840 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1933 History Links to the Past / National Park Service I Search Contact Top Last Modified: Tues, Feb 1 2000 07:08:48 pm PDT http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/fauna1/fauna.htm ParkNet National Park Service http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/faunal/fauna.htm 1/23/2010 National Park Service: Faunal Page 1 of 2 Altra Bank FAUNA Fauna of the National Parks OF THE NATIONAL PARKER - of the United States EXPERS STATES CONSPECTUS OF WILD-LIFE PROBLEMS OF EACH PARK EASTERN PARKS Fauna Series No. 1 Acadia and Great Smoky Mountains already form the nucleus of this group which in the near future may include Shenandoah, Mammoth Cave, Isle Royale, and the suggested Everglades national parks. The Cover conception of a chain of national parks in the densely populated country east of the Mississippi River is a recent one. Their principal Contents function will be to preserve the fragrant restfulness of wilderness life close to the great centers of industry and commerce. Foreword Approach These eastern parks will never boast the massive grandeur or the grotesque formation and fantastic coloration that abound in the parks Methods of the West. Theirs is a different, albeit just as pleasing, charm. It is made of the beauty of lush grasses, of rioting autumn colors, of the Analysis varied hardwood forest, of spring flowers, of colorful birds, and of hazy green-clothed mountains and the clearest sparkling waters. Conspectus The very essence of these parks will be their wild life, both plant and Suggested Policy animal. It will have to be carefully protected. The fauna particularly has been ravished by several generations of unremittent hunting and trapping. It will take additional years of careful nursing to restore its primitive vigor. The task can only be accomplished on the broad base of boundaries that are adequate to wild life in the first place. The valuable, if sad, experiences gained in the western parks caution the need for careful preliminary investigation of faunal requirements before drawing original boundaries. In the faunal surveys of these parks relatively heavy emphasis will fall on the work of determining the primitive wild-life picture and tracing the influence of human history on the wild life. The original picture has been obscured in a region SO long occupied, and the maladjustments are correspondingly numerous. Whereas the other parks of the group will have general biotic similarities, Everglades is the exception that its name indicates. It really belongs in a distinct group with itself as the only member. Great Smoky Mountains and the Everglades were the only eastern park projects visited in the preliminary survey. http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/fauna1/fauna4d.htm 1/23/2010