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	Topics Ansel Franklin Hall Topic Home Ansel F. Hall was an American naturalist. He was the first Chief Naturalist and first Chief Forester of the United States National Park ServiceNational Park Service The National Park Service is the United States federal agency that manages all National Parks, many National Monuments, and ... . Early career Hall was graduated in 1917 from the University of CaliforniaUniversity of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley is the oldest and flagship campus of the ten-campus University of California system.... with a degree in forestry. He joined the then-infant National Park Service as a ranger in Sequoia National ParkSequoia National Park Overview Sequoia National Park is a national park in the southern Sierra Nevada, east of Fresno, California in the United States of A... . His Park Service career was then interrupted by military service in France during World War IWorld War I Overview World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War and "The War to End All Wars" was a global m... . From 1920 to 1923, Hall served as the first Park Naturalist of Yosemite National ParkYosemite National Park Yosemite National Park is a national park largely in Mariposa County, and Tuolumne County, California, United States.... , where he established innovative interpretative programs, founded the Yosemite Museum Association, made geological models and native crafts, mounted natural history specimens, and edited the seminal Handbook of Yosemite National Park, published in 1921. National service Hall's energy and competence attracted attention in Washington and he was promoted to serve in the following posts: 1923 – 1930: Chief Naturalist of the National Park Service. 1923 – 1933: Chief Forester and Senior Naturalist of the National Park Service. 1933 – 1937: Chief of the National Park Service Field Division. In 1930, Hall co-wrote (with Frederick Law OlmstedFrederick Law Olmsted Frederick Law Olmsted was a United States landscape architect, famous for designing many well-known urban parks, including ... 's sons) a report for an Oakland, CaliforniaOakland, California Oakland, founded in 1852, is an American city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in Northern California in the Unite... foundation which "...advocated a revolutionary new concept: a regional approach to park development, the creation of truly large, interconnected parklands that would define an urban landscape...", and which led directly to the establishment of the East Bay Regional Park DistrictEast Bay Regional Park District The East Bay Regional Park District is a public authority operating in Alameda County and Contra Costa County, California, w... in the Oakland area In 1933 - 1934, Hall led an expedition to the Rainbow BridgeRainbow Bridge Overview Rainbow Bridge may refer to:* Rainbow Bridge National Monument, in Utah, often described as the world's largest natural bri... - Monument ValleyMonument Valley Monument Valley is located on the southern border of Utah with northern Arizona.... area, which produced thousands of valuable photographs of Indian life in the Four CornersFour Corners (United States) The Four Corners is a region in the western United States located near the common border of four states: in clockwise order ... area of that time. Hall left the Park Service in 1938 to operate concessions in Mesa Verde National ParkMesa Verde National Park Mesa Verde National Park is a national park in southwest Colorado, in the United States.... . Later he worked as a consultant in park design and interpretation and wrote books on the topic. Publications Hall, Ansel Franklin. Guide to Yosemite: A handbook of the trails and roads of Yosemite valley and the adjacent region (Sunset Publishing House, 1920) Hall, Ansel Franklin. Guide to Giant Forest, Sequoia National Park: A handbook of the northern section of Sequoia National Park and the adjacent Sierra Nevada (Hall, 1921) Hall, Ansel Franklin, editor. Handbook of Yosemite National Park: a compendium of articles on the Yosemite region by the leading scientific authorities (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1921) LCCN 21014069. Library of Congress Call No. F 868.Y6 H18. Hall, Ansel Franklin. "Mount Shasta" in Sierra Club Bulletin. 1926. Vol. 12. No. 3. pp. 250-67. Publications of the Sierra Club. Hall, Ansel Franklin. Yosemite Valley: An intimate guide (National Parks Publishing House, 1929) Hall, Ansel Franklin. A Guide to Sequoia and General Grant National Parks (National Parks Publishing House, 1930) Hall, Ansel Franklin. General report on the Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley Expedition of 1933 (University of California Press, 1934) Hall, Ansel Franklin. A pictorial guide to Mesa Verde National Park (Smith-Brooks, 1951; Mesa Verde Company, 1960) Hall, Ansel Franklin. Mesa Verde, a brief guide (publishing details unknown) Turner, Jack, author, and Hall, Ansel F, photographer. Early Images of the Southwest: The Lantern Slides of Ansel F. Hall (Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1998). ISBN 1-57098-217-1 External links (1961)