DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
CRATER LAKE NATIONAL PARK

Nature Notes is issued during July, August, and September of this year by the Naturalist Division. Publications using these Notes please acknowledge source by citation of author, title, and this publication.

Cover and Sketches by L. Howard Crawford, Ranger-Naturalist.

Sometimes Spring arrives late at the Rim and the surrounding peaks of Crater Lake, and then early visitors to the Park, having come up from the warm valleys of Klamath and the Rogue, delight in the coolness of snowbanks and inspect with eager curiosity the flowers pushing up through the volcanic soil at the dwindling edges of the snow. Naturally to them the question arises, "What is this place like in winter when blizzards sweep the ridges, or, the storms ended, the sun strikes down upon the white stillness of great snowfields"?

To that question the present issue of Nature Notes is, at least in part, an answer. After a glance back at winter, we move on to a consideration of some of the phenomena of Spring, and in notes on flower, and rock-slide, and waterfall attempt to bring to those who have seen the lake in early July quickened memories of sights once witnessed, and revival of thoughts, once pleasant to the mind.