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Roger Hall is a Bay Area native. He was born in Berkeley, California in 1933. His father was the National Park Service’s first Chief Naturalist Ansel F. Hall, who co-created and authored with Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. the founding plan proposal for the East Bay Regional Park District “Proposed Park Reservations for East Bay Cities” in 1930. In this interview, Roger discusses his early life, his family, his father’s work, his memories of Tilden Regional Park’s Lake Anza and Grizzly Peak, his family’s involvement with Mesa Verde National Park, and his father’s legacy.