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UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
CRATER LAKE NATIONAL PARK
NATURE NOTES
| Volume XII |
October 1, 1946 |
One Number Only |
NATURE NOTES from Crater Lake National Park are issued from time to
time by the Natural History Association to foster interest and
appreciation in the natural features of the park. Distribution is gratis
to persons and organizations interested in the park and its natural
history. REPRINTING of the articles appearing in NATURE NOTES is
encouraged. Publications using this material: please acknowledge source
by citation of author, title, and this publication.
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E. P. Leavitt
Superintendent |
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Dr. G. C. Ruhle, Editor
Park Naturalist |
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Cover sketch and illustrations - Nancy P. Wallis.
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This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a
miracle;
wonderful, inscrutable, magical, and more, to whosoever will think of
it.
-- Thomas Carlyle
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A Greeting
By Dr. G. C. Ruhle, Editor
After a lapse of years punctuated by the war, NATURE NOTES FROM
CRATER LAKE NATIONAL PARK, is again published, a single number being
scheduled for the current year. This issue of NATURE NOTES has been
sponsored by the Crater Lake Natural History Association and prepared by
the members of the naturalist staff, whose mouth piece it purports to
be. It is a chronicler of interesting and important bits of natural
history of the park. Its contents are original articles, notes, digests,
poems, sketches, bits of park life, comments and opinions of interested
parties. Members of the park staff and voluntary contributors comprise
its aggregation of writers. Editorials are included whenever possible,
feasible, urgent. These, true to their name, are solely expressions of
conviction or opinion of the park naturalist as editor, not necessarily
the general consensus of feeling of the National Park Service or of
Crater Lake National Park. Items may be included despite lack of
literary merit, for NATURE NOTES endeavors to preserve and transmit a
cross section of the individuality and atmosphere of the park's dramatis
personae.
NATURE NOTES stands primarily for conservation, for the protection
and perpetuation of our natural features, for the application and
operation of the fundamental policies of the National Park System and of
the Naturalist Division. It seeks to further its aims by the development
of a love of nature through observation and intelligent
understanding.
As long as the limited supply lasts, these pamphlets are mailed free
anywhere in the United States to every one wishing to receive them. But
postal regulations require that a written request be given to the park
before they may be franked. One rare occasions, copyrighted articles may
appear in NATURE NOTES by special permission. These are fittingly
marked. All other articles in the pamphlet are intended for the free use
by any publication. It is merely requested that credit be given to the
author and to NATURE NOTES, CRATER LAKE NATIONAL PARK. The Naturalist
Division always greatly appreciates receiving notice or copies thus used
by various organizations.
NATURE NOTES is prepared for your instruction and pleasure. The
editor is pleased to receive for consideration contributions of general
interest to the readers. Suggestions and inquiries are encouraged, and
your constructive criticism is invited at all time.
LAVA BEDS NATIONAL MONUMENT in northern California has been
separated from the administrative control of Crater Lake National Park;
Ranger Don C. Fisher, long serving it, remains as its custodian. OREGON
CAVES NATIONAL MONUMENT in southwestern Oregon retains its connection
with the park administration.
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