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Show Bryce Park Museum Attractions Installed A museum installation team from the Western Museum Laboratory Lab-oratory in San Francisco is now doing the final work toward completion com-pletion of the Bryce Canyon National Na-tional Park visitor center, Superintendent Sup-erintendent Glen Pean reported today. This installation completes com-pletes the $250,000 visitor center built under the National Park Service's MISSION 66 program. The geological story of the Bryce Canyon formations Is the principal theme of the exhibits which are being Installed. Other exhibits describe the plant and animal life of the park and its historical background. More than two years have been spent in their preparation. Working under the direction of Raymond S. Price, a member of the planning team which made the original designs for the exhibits, ex-hibits, the installation team Includes In-cludes wildlife artist William D. Berry and museum technician Clair H. Younkln. The team is a part of the National Park Service's Serv-ice's Western Museum laboratory, which plans and constructs all interpretive exhibits in National Park Service areas in the western west-ern half of the United States. A working model by which a park visitor can re-create with his own hand the faulting action which formed the high plateaus of Utah and Arizona is Included in the exhibits. Relief models .'.how the action of frost wind and water which sculptured the pinnacles and spires for which Bryce Canyon National Park is noted. Fossils and samples of the different types of rocks found In the park are used to expla'n the geological action which created crea-ted the formations of Bryce. Mounted specimens ' of the most common birds and animals of the park show visitors the wildilfe which can be seen In the area. A life-like drama Is jrtrayed In one diorama In which a gray fox is shown stalking stalk-ing an unsuspecting ground squirrel, while violet-green swallows swal-lows and white-throated swifts soar overhead. A synchronized tape and slide show is presented at 15-minute intervals during the day to help visitors plan their stay in the park. This program Is changed with each season of the year. |