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Carl Parcher Russell historian ecologist and administrator was born January 18 1894 in Fall River Wisconsin. He joined the National Park Service (NPS) in 1923 as a Naturalist in Yosemite National Park. In 1931 he received a Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of Michigan. He served as an officer for the NPS for 34 years from 1923 until his retirement in 1957. He was the Chief Naturalist of Yosemite from 1923 to 1929.
