The National Weather Service's Cooperative Observer Program (COOP) is a national weather- and climate-observing network of more than 11,000 volunteers who take observations on farms, in urban and suburban areas, National Parks, seashores, and mountaintops. The COOP was formally created in 1890 under the Organic Act and continues to this day. In this photograph a young volunteer takes a reading of his weather instruments in Granger, Utah, circa 1930.