Below is what a child had to pass in 1933 to be the equivalent of a Junior Ranger today. To earn the award, 26 of the following tests had to be answered, including No. 1. This was a test used in the earliest years of the Yosemite Junior Nature School, which ran from 1930 to 1954.
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Attend at least five meetings of the Junior Nature School.
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Point out and give characteristics of ten trees.
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Point out and give characteristics of five shrubs.
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Demonstrate the ability to read tree history by means of tree rings.
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Tell the principle values of forests.
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Identify five birds by means of songs alone.
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Point out fifteen different kinds of birds.
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Name ten resident birds of Yosemite Valley, five predators, two waders, three wood borers, and fifteen perchers.
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Identify the nests of five birds.
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Point out the four principle minerals found in granite.
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Tell briefly the story of the origin of the Yosemite Valley.
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Illustrate the difference between stream-worn and glacial-worn boulders.
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Name and identify twenty-five different flowers.
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Know the principal parts of the flower.
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Explain the function of flowers in plant reproduction.
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Name and identify ten Yosemite mammals.
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Name and identify five Yosemite reptiles.
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Outline the life history of the bear.
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Tell four ways of identifying old Indian village sites.
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Tell how obsidian arrow points are made.
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Tell how the Yosemite Indians made acorn bread.
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Point out fifteen vegetable, ten animal, and three insect sources of food used by the Indians.
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Point out forty points of interest around Yosemite Valley.
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Identify four kinds of trout.
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Tell the methods of fish culture used in the hatchery.
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Demonstrate the ability to 'read the trail-side like a book.'
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Identify the following: ant lion, termite, swallow-tail butterfly, grasshopper, wasp, dragon-fly, moth, and ladybird beetle.
