And so was born the Field Division of Education of
the National Park Service. While its main goal was to hire and train
park naturalists (then called Ranger-Naturalists), this office also
produced a number of reports which were useful for park naturalists and
superintendents in developing interpretive programs or museum displays.
What we loosely refer to here as "the Berkely Collection", these
publications set the stage for more in-depth studies of the parks in
subsequent years. Many of these publications were prepared by a special
research group employed under the Civil Works Program of 1933-34. Long
out-of-print and, admittedly a bit dated, it is hoped that the on-line
editions of these publications will give the viewer a sense of the early
days of National Park Service interpretation (additional on-line titles
will be added at a later date). As Barry Mackintosh wrote: "...from the
1930s few doubted the importance of interpretation to the Service
mission, as a significant part of what the bureau was about."
The Blackfoot, Julian Steward.
Berkeley, Calif.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service,
Field Division of Education, 1934.
Preliminary Report on the Ethnography
of the Southwest, Ralph L. Beals. Berkeley, Calif.: U.S.
Department of the Interior National Park Service, Field Division of
Education, 1935.
Chronology for Tumacacori National
Monument, with bibliography, H. E. Rensch. Berkeley, Calif.:
U.S. Dept. of Interior, National Park Service, Field Division of
Education, 1934.
A Brief Report on the Historical and Archeological Aspects of the
Missions of Northern Sonora : made October 12-29, 1935, Arthur
Woodward. Berkeley, Calif.: National Park Service, Field Division of
Education, 1935.
A Report on the Geology of Devils
Tower National Monument, William L. Effinger. Berkeley, Calif.:
U.S. Department of the interior, National Park Service. Field Division
of Education, 1934.
Tuzigoot, Louis R.
Caywood and Edward H. Spicer. Berkeley, Calif.: National Park Service,
Field Division of Education, July 1935.
The History of Scotts Bluff,
Nebraska, Donald D. Brand. Berkeley, Calif.: Dept. of the
Interior, National Park Service, Field Division of Education, 1934.
History of Glacier National Park : with
particular emphasis on the northern development, Ralph L. Beals.
Berkeley, Calif.: U.S. Dept. of Interior, National Park Service, Field
Division of Education, 1935.
Mount Rainier : Its Human History
Associations, H.E. Rensch. Berkeley, Calif.: U.S. Department of
the Interior, National Park Service, 1935.
Historical Background for the Rocky
Mountain National Park, Colorado, H.E. Rensch. Berkeley, Calif.:
U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1935.
The
Zoology of Rocky Mountain National Park (pdf), Baxter L. Smith.
Berkeley, Calif.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service,
Field Division of Education, 1935.
A Report on the Geology of Rocky
Mountain National Park, William L. Effinger. Berkeley, Calif.:
Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Field Division of
Education, 1935.
Ethnology of Rocky Mountain National
Park: The Ute and Arapaho, Ralph L. Beals, Berkeley, Calif.:
Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Field Division of
Education, 1935.
A Report on the Geology of the Southwestern United States
(pdf), William L. Effinger. Berkely, Calif.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior,
National Park Service, 1935.
Material Culture of the Pima, Papago,
and Western Apache, Ralph L. Beals, Berkeley, Calif.: Dept. of
the Interior, National Park Service, Field Division of Education,
1934.
Navaho Life of Yesterday and
Today, Katharine Luomala, Berkeley, Calif.: Dept. of the
Interior, National Park Service, Western Museum Laboratories, 1938.
Indian Tribes of Sequoia National
Park Region, Julian H. Steward, Berkeley, Calif.: Dept. of the
Interior, National Park Service, Field Division of Education, 1935.
Outline of the Geology and
Paleontology of Scotts Bluff National Monument, William L.
Effinger. Berkeley, Calif.: Dept. of the Interior, National Park
Service, Field Division of Education, 1934.