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Official 1952 National ParkService Arrowhead emblem. The arrowhead was authorized as the official NationalPark Service emblem by the Secretary of the Interior on July 20, 195l.While not spelled out in official documents, the elements of the emblemsymbolized the major facets of the national park system, or as Wirth putit, "what the parks were all about." The Sequoia tree and bisonrepresented vegetation and wildlife, the mountains and water representedscenic and recreational values, and the arrowhead representedhistorical and archeological values. Doty,and Walter Rivers, were all involved in the design process andultimately came up with the arrowhead design in use today.
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Maier's staff, including Sanford "Red" Hill, Cecil J. When Wirth became director in 1951, he turnedNeasham's design over to Herbert Maier, then assistant director ofRegion IV. Aubrey Neasham's suggestionfor the National Park Service emblem. Drury thought thedesign had "the important merit of simplicity" and was "adequate so faras the symbolism is concerned." ĭudley Bayless' "open road"design, winner of the 1949 National Park Service Emblem DesignContest. Shortly after the contest was over, Aubrey V.Neasham, a historian in the Region IV (now Western Region) EngineeringDivision in San Francisco, in a letter to Director Drury, suggested thatthe Service should have an emblem depicting its primary function "likean arrowhead, or a tree or a buffalo." With the letter Neasham submitted a rough sketch of a designincorporating an elongated arrowhead and a pine tree. He thought that Bayliss' design was "good and well presented,but it was, as were most of the submissions, a formal modern type." Theyhad expected something that would have symbolized what the parks wereall about. Wirth, then in the Newton B.Drury directorate, served on the review committee that made the winningselection. The winner of thecontest, Dudley Bayliss, collected the fifty dollar prize, but his "roadbadge" design was never used. A contest was held in 1949 because it wasthought at that time that the only emblem used by the Service, theSequoia cone, did not adequately symbolize the bureau. NPSA/HFC RGY55įor years there had been agitation within the ParkService for some emblem that would identify the Service as the shielddid the Forest Service. The following is a breakdown of the various insignia thathave been used, or proposed for use in some cases, by Servicepersonnel.Įmblem used by the NationalPark Service prior to the Arrowhead being adopted in 1952. When the National Park Servicewas inaugurated as a bureau in 1917, an "officer and men" mentalityprevailed, with the basic rangers being the "men" and everyone else"officers." This was reflected in the first insignia allocated to each.In succeeding years many different things were tried, polished, and insome cases abandoned before the great "leveling" of the 1928 uniformregulations. They wanted a uniform and all of the trappings thatwould let the world know who they were. From the first, the men guarding our parks lookedfor an identity.