Show APPOINTED AS PARK naturalist the appointment 0 of mr clifford 0 pressnall as park natu naturalist of zion national park has been aw an bounced by superintendent mr Pres nalls appointment to his new position was made by promotion from junior park naturalist in yosemite national park california it Is expected that mr will report tor for d duty u ty at zion national park on june 26 clifford C who has spent most of hta his life on the pacific coast was graduated from oregon state college in 1923 re a bachelor ot of science degree ile he entered the national park service in 1929 after having attended a session of the yosemite school of field natural history during the same year during the last two iwo and one halt half years he has served as junior park naturalist in yosemite national park assisting with all the varied educational activities there and specializing in preparation of exhibits ills his most outstanding work in yosemite was the establishment of the file mariposa Marl posa grove museum in which he was assisted by his wife ruby who la is an art student of promising ability this museum housed in a replica of an old log cabin which has stood in the heart of this famous grove tor for over half a century contains the most complete exhibit of big trees to be found in any museum in the country the original nature of big tree exhibits his yosemite experience in building nature traits trails and his general work as a museum man mail has given him an en an viable reputation among the museum preparatory of the country every naturalist has hobble special fields in which he Is most interested specialized in mammals at colleg now ile he is es specially pec lally ally interested in birds he has just completed B a bibliography on the girds of the great basin region which should prove valuable to him in his new position he Is a clear and forceful lecturer on numbers of natural history and national park topics and a clever writer in the nature field in commenting on mr air Pres nalls transfer superintendent thomson of Yo yosemite senitte national park states clifford prescalla Pres nalla nalls growth in our work here has been outstanding ile he Is a hard worker with a remarkably tine fine in ger several veral basic seten sciences ces which cuu coupled pled with good judgment and pleasing personality has made the man extremely valuable to us we hate to lose him but re realize a liz he fie Is too good a man to keep here as an assistant I 1 am sure you will enjoy working with mr air 11 |