Katmai Tourism in Katmai Country

AAO - Alaska Area Office; what the Alaska Regional Office was before the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act was passed on December 2, 1980.

ACV - Alaska Consolidated Vacations, the corporate name for the NCA camps during the early 1960s.

AMHA - Anchorage Museum of History and Art

ANIA - Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve

ARD - (NPS) Associate Regional Director

ARO - (NPS) Alaska Regional Office

BLM - (U.S.) Bureau of Land Management

CAB - (U.S.) Civil Aeronautics Board

CUL - (NPS) Commercial Use License

DENA - Denali National Park and Preserve, AK, the successor to MOMC.

DSC - (NPS) Denver Service Center

FAA - (U.S.) Federal Aviation Agency; or Federal Aviation Administration, its successor

GMP - (NPS) General Management Plan

GPO - (U.S.) General Printing Office

KATM - Katmai National Monument (1918-1980) or Katmai National Park and Preserve (1980-present)

LAME - Lake Mead National Recreation Area, CA-NV

MOMC - Mount McKinley National Park, AK. This park, which was renamed Denali in 1980, managed Katmai from 1918 through 1969.

NARA - National Archives and Records Administration

NCA - Northern Consolidated Airlines, which managed the Katmai camps from 1950 to 1968

NPS - National Park Service

OAS - Office of Aircraft Services (U.S. Dept. of the Interior)

OC - (NPS) Concessions Division

ODM - (NPS) Facility Design and Maintenance Division

OL - (NPS) Lands Division

PNRO - (NPS) Pacific Northwest Regional Office, Seattle

RCR - (NPS) Cultural Resources Division

RD - (NPS) Regional Director

RG - (NARA) Record Group

RMS - (NPS) Resource Managment Specialist

RP - (NPS) Planning Division

UAF - University of Alaska Fairbanks; specific citations refer to the Alaska and Polar Regions Collection, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

WAA - Wien Air Alaska, which managed the camps from 1973 through 1982

WASO - (NPS) Washington (D.C.) Service Office; headquarters

WCA - Wien Consolidated Airlines, the company that managed the camps from 1968 to 1973

WRO - (NPS) Western Regional Office, San Francisco

WSC - (NPS) Western Service Center, San Francisco

YELL - Yellowstone National Park, ID-MT-WY