HARRIETT "PETEY" WEAVER
CSPRA Honorary State Park Ranger 1971

See 125th Ranger Anniversary publication by Weaver
CSPRA selected Petey Weaver as a 1971 recipient of the Honorary State Park Ranger award, for her many years of commitment to the protection and preservation California's State Parks.

Petey was often singled out as the agency's first female Park Ranger, working at Big Basin Redwoods. She has written several accounts of her career, most notably, "Them Were The Days", and a children's book, "Frosty the Racoon."

Courtesy of GrayBear retired Ranger Mike Lynch you may review "Them Were The Days" online. The reprint was published by the 125th Ranger Anniversary Committee in April 1991.
Weaver below left, sans-Stetson, at Big Basin Ranger meeting in 1945.