Refuge Sign at Desert National Wildlife Refuge in 1949

View of a large sign, constructed from wooden logs (the support posts/legs and frame) and planks (the main part of the sign), in a desert environment. The sign reads "U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE DESERT GAME RANGE". In the center of the sign is the image of a Desert Bighorn Sheep in profile. Just below the main part of the sign is a long, lightly-colored plank that reads "1849 A CENTURY OF CONSERVATION 1949". Some scrubby desert plants are visible in the background.
Photo By/Credit

E.P. Haddon

Date Shot/Created
06/01/1949
Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
Image
Original caption: Refuge sign beside the highway at the entrance to the Desert Game Range where mountain Sheep, Sntelope, Mule Deer and many other desert forms of wildlife may be observed. Note the addition to the sign (at the bottom) commemorating the centennial of the establishment of the U.S. Department of the Interior. June 1949.
Facility
Desert National Wildlife Refuge
Subject tags
History
Signs
Wildlife refuges