Ansel Hall, who was the first chief naturalist and chief forester for the National Park Service, traveled the world looking for ideas, such as this stop at the Temple of Kom Ombo in Egypt in 1924. His grandson, Jack Turner, will be speaking at the Explorers Club in New York City on Monday about Hall’s life and his connection with another Ansel, Ansel Adams.

Courtesy of Jack Turner

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Ansel Hall, who was the first chief naturalist and chief forester for the National Park Service, traveled the world looking for ideas, such as this stop at the Temple of Kom Ombo in Egypt in 1924. His grandson, Jack Turner, will be speaking at the Explorers Club in New York City on Monday about Hall’s life and his connection with another Ansel, Ansel Adams.

Courtesy of Jack Turner

Jack Turner has been on an odyssey to document his grandfather Ansel Hall’s career as the first chief naturalist and chief forester with the fledgling National Park Service. Hall’s life was committed to exploration and conservation, including adventures in the Southwest, Europe and North Africa.

Now, Turner has been asked to speak at the famous Explorers Club in New York City in a talk, “Ansel and Ansel: Points of Inspiration,” featuring not only stories and images from his grandfather’s life but that of another conservationist of the era, Ansel Adams. The two crossed paths in Yosemite National Park in the early 1920s.

In 2011, The Durango Herald Small Press published Turner’s award-winning book, Landscapes On Glass, which featured Hall’s photos from the Southwest, taken on glass plates and used in talks in the 1930s that financed the Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley Expedition.

Visit https://explorers.org/events/detail/public_lecture_series_feat_jack_turner to see Turner’s lecture streamed live at 5 p.m. Monday.

Herald Staff