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Show aaa t' I awm wmraay S mtm aaaaak. aaw kam .'It Utah Division of Wildlife Resources officer, Charles Bobo. uses heckpark to spray rotrnone around edges and in small streams surrounding Former Ranger Presents Picture to Superintendent BRYCE CANYON Maurice Cope, former head ranger of Bryce Canyon Park, presented a picture taken by him 40 years ago on an old 35 mm glass slide camera to Park Superintendent Thomas Hobbs. Cope, 93, made a special trip to Bryce Canyon to present the picture as part of the park's 50-year celebration. Cope said he watched the snow scenes in the picture for three winters before he got the right prespective for it. "Not even a mouse had crossed the snow; it was so perfect," he said. He went down into the canyon on a rope ladder to take the picture. He worked two years for the Union Pacific Kailroad in the old lodge. In 1928 he became Head Ranger for the park service and became a permanent ranger in 1930; a job he held until he retired in 1947. The home built by the Park Service for Cope and his family was made of logs and boards and still stands in the original place. He and his wife raised 8 children there. People from Washington who came to Tropic Reservoir. The reservoir was treated to remove population of redside shiners. the park didn't know Western ways and were amazed at some of the things that were ac complished during his time, such as cat tleguards In 1925 the lodge was built. He took trail trips through the day until the first naturalist came in 1934. He then helped in the office, put in telephone lines and helped build all roads. He supervised CCC boys at the park and lectured every night at campfires and the lodge. Shirley Temple, John D. Rockefeller, all Union Pacific dignitaries, U.S. Secretary of Interior, several governors, and foreign dignitaries visited the park during his time. He and his wife, DeEsta Cope, live in Salt Lake City and both said they delight in reminiscing about the many years spent at Bryce Canyon. |