Katmai Tourism in Katmai Country

¹Herbert Maier [Acting RD, Region Four] to Supt. MOMC, February 9, 1953, in "C38 - Concessions Contracts & Permits, KATM, 1949-1966" file, ARO-OC.

²Louis R. Huber, "Cataclysm," Alaska Sportsman 17 (May 1951), 23.

³Grant H. Pearson [Supt. MOMC] to RD, Region Four, April 24, 1951, at KATM.

⁴Grant Pearson [Supt. MOMC] to Lawrence C. Merriam [RD, Region Four], May 1, 1953, at KATM; Petersen interview, April 17, 1991.

⁵NPS, "Concessioner Annual Financial Report," 1970-1975, in C30 File, ARO-OC; Petersen interview, August 9, 1990.

⁶Elsie May Bell Grosvenor, "Alaska's Warmer Side," 753; Johnson, "Alaskan Fliers," 7; Gruening, "Lonely Wonders of Katmai," 820.

⁷Robert L. Peterson [Management Assistant, AAO] to file, January 27, 1975, in "C-2823, Concessions Contracts & Permits - General Correspondence, 1968-1977" file, ARO-OC; "Katmai Exploring, Fishing...On Your Own or on a Tour," Sunset 154 (June 1975), 38; Wayne Anthony Ross to Gary Everhardt [Director NPS], December 16, 1976, in "Wien Air Alaska, Inc., 1973-1978" file, ARO-OC; NPS, "Superintendent's Annual Report, KATM, 1979," 3; NPS, "Concessioner Annual Financial Report," 1979, Schedule I.

⁸Alaska [advertisement], March 1971, 64 and May 1977, 71; Alaska Travel Publications, Exploring Katmai National Monument and the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, 26.

⁹Petersen interview, August 9, 1990. Also note the following ads in Alaska Magazine: March 1974, 55; March 1975, 60; January 1977, 56. White's last ad was run in June 1977.

¹⁰Raymond F. Petersen, interview by Frank Norris, December 19, 1991.

¹¹NPS, "Concessioner Annual Financial Report," 1980, Schedule I; David K. Morris to Randall Day, n.d. [c. January 1982]; both in File C30, "Concessioner's Annual Financial Report, Wien Air Alaska, 1976, 1978-1982," ARO-OC; NPS, "Superintendent's Annual Report, KATM, 1982," 2.

¹²[WAA], "1982 Lodge Prices," Katmai Concessions Contract History binders, ARO-OC; Team Captain, KATM General Management Plan, "Alagnak River Trip Report," 1982, KATM files.

¹³NPS, "Superintendent's Annual Report, KATM, 1983," 4, 9, 10; Ibid., 1984, [2]; Ibid., 1985, 1, 5; Frank and Penny Starr, "End of the Season Report, 1985," KATM; "Alaska Fishing and Wilderness Adventures" CUL File, ARO-OC; Petersen interview, August 9, 1990, April 17, 1991, and December 19, 1991.

¹⁴NPS, "Superintendent's Annual Report, KATM, 1986," 4; "Katmailand" CUL file, ARO-OC.

¹⁵NPS, "Superintendent's Annual Report, KATM, 1985," 1; Hal Grovert [Acting Supt. KATM] to Raymond F. Petersen, November 9, 1987, in "Katmai Concessions Contract History" binders, ARO-OC; "Alaska's Battle River Wilderness Retreat" brochure, 1988; same, CUL File, ARO-OC.

¹⁶G.L. Collins to Regional Director, Region Four, in RG 79, Box 311, File 201, NARA San Bruno; Louis R. Huber, "Flight to Katmai," Alaska Sportsman 17 (April 1951), 40; Edwin W. Seiler to Grant Pearson, February 9, 1952, at KATM; Gruening, "Lonely Wonders of Katmai," 812-820; Edwin Seiler to John Cook, June 14, 1979, in CUL file, ARO-OC; Raymond F. Petersen, interview by Frank Norris, December 19, 1991.

¹⁷Edwin M. Seiler to BLM, January 8, 1973 and John Merrick, BLM to Edwin Seiler, January 23, 1973; both in BLM File AA 008301, Alaska State Office, Anchorage.

¹⁸John Merrick, BLM to Edwin Seiler, January 23, 1973, in BLM File AA 008301; Alaska Travel Publications, Exploring Katmai National Monument and the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, 41; David Morris, interview by William Hanable, November 2, 1989, 6.

¹⁹Rebecca L. Kaiser to Enchanted Lake Lodge, June 10, 1986, and "Application for [NPS] Business License," n.d. [1980?]; both in CUL File, ARO-OC.

²⁰John Merrick, BLM to Edwin Seiler, January 23, 1973; Case File Abstract; both in File AA 008301, Alaska State Office, BLM, Anchorage; NPS, "Superintendent's Annual Report, KATM, 1982," 2, 8; Special Use Permit File CX9820-2-009, in CUL file, ARO-OC.

²¹NPS, "Superintendent's Annual Report, KATM, 1983," 4; Ibid., 1984, 5; Edwin Seiler to Supt. KATM, February 22, 1984, in CUL file, ARO-OC.

²²Case File Abstract, File AA 002615, Alaska State Office, BLM, Anchorage; New York Times, January 21, 1969, 1.

²³T.G. Bingham [Chief, Division of Lands and Mineral Program Management] to "Supt., NPS, Alaska Field Office," April 20, 1970; Pete Cizmich to Case File, July 22, 1970; both in File AA 002615, Alaska State Office, BLM.

²⁴Pete Cizmich to Case File, July 22, 1970; oblique aerial photograph, taken September 22, 1970; both in File AA 002615.

²⁵Alaska, March 1971, 68.

²⁶John E. Lawrence, "to whom it may concern," September 24, 1971; Jon A. Johnson [Realty Specialist] to Case File, February 28, 1973; both in File AA 002615; Alaska Travel Publications, Exploring Katmai National Monument and the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, 41.

²⁷"Application to Purchase Headquarters Site," November 8, 1971, in File AA002615; Alaska Travel Publications, Exploring Katmai National Monument and the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, 41.

²⁸The last such advertisement in Alaska Magazine took place in January 1974 [p. 55]. The "privately owned fishing lodge" was also noted in Alaska Travel Publications' 1974 book, but the research probably took place before January 1974.

²⁹Garey E. Coatney [Chief, ARO-OL] to Supt. KATM, December 14, 1988, in File L3415, ARO-OL.

³⁰Subsequent Public Land Orders withdrawing land at the site took place in 1944, 1945, and 1946. Historical Index, T17S, R43W, Seward Meridian.

³¹Lt. Col. Ernest B. Walters, USAF, to Regional Administrator, BLM, May 29, 1949; Charles P. Mead to Acting Director, Alaska State Office, BLM, October 23, 1986, in Case File A 023000, Alaska State Office, BLM, Anchorage; Supt. KATM to RD, ARO, July 6, 1981, in File L-30, ARO-OL.

³²"Recreation Camp, Naknek" (map), March 8, 1949, based on World Aeronautical Chart No. 136 and local sources of information, in Case File AO 23000, Alaska State Office, BLM, Anchorage.

³³John A. Hussey, Embattled Katmai: A History of Katmai National Monument, 425; Alaska Travel Publications, Exploring Katmai National Monument and the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, 77; Sanford Hill [ARD, Region Four] to Director, NPS, September 25, 1951, at KATM; BLM, "USS 5712, Alaska," December 18, 1972 in File L3415, ARO-OL.

³⁴NPS, "A Master Plan, Katmai National Monument, Alaska" (preliminary working draft), August 1971, 36; Gilbert E. Blinn, interview by William Hanable, August 26, 1988, 16.

³⁵U.S. Air Force, History of the Alaskan Air Command, 1 July 1974-30 June 1975 (Anchorage, the author, February 19, 1976), 84-85.

³⁶U.S. Air Force, History of the Alaskan Air Command, 1 July 1975-31 December 1975 (Anchorage, the author, 1976), 38; Ibid. for 1 January 1976-31 December 1976, 170-71.

³⁷G. Frank Williss, "Do Things Right the First Time": The National Park Service and the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980 (Denver?, NPS, September 1985), 217-218; David K. Morris [Supt. KATM] to RD, ARO, July 6, 1981.

³⁸Sandra C. Thomas [Chief, Withdrawal Section, BLM] to David A. LaMore [Chief, Management and Disposal Branch, Real Estate Division, Dept. of the Army, U.S. Army Engineer District, Alaska], September 11, 1987; Sue Wolf [Chief, Branch of Land Resources, BLM] to David A. LaMore, November 20, 1987; both in File L3415, ARO-OL; David K. Morris, Supt. KATM to RD, ARO, July 6, 1981; Garey E. Coatney [Chief, ARO-OL] to Supt. KATM, December 14, 1988, in File L3415, ARO-OL.

³⁹Garey E. Coatney [Chief, ARO-OL] to Supt. KATM, December 14, 1988, in File L3415, ARO-OL.

⁴⁰David K. Morris [Supt. KATM] to RD, ARO, July 6, 1981; Garey E. Coatney [Chief, ARO-OL] to Supt. KATM, December 14, 1988; both in File L3415, ARO-OL.