the YCC and the Public Health Service be instructed that they are paid by the people to be servants of the people not for any self aggrandisement or to protect their collective public image.
In addition procedures should be established between the Park Service and the U.S. Public Health Service and appropriate state and county health departments to assure that those health agencies were alerted immediately to potential problems. [88]
During the mid-1970s the National Park Service began developing a “Statement for Management” for each unit of the National Park System. The statements, which were revised and updated periodically, were designed to provide an up-to-date inventory of the park’s condition and an analysis of its problems. The statements provided a format to park administrators for evaluating conditions and identifying major issues and information voids.
The first “Statement for Management” for Crater Lake National Park was approved by Pacific Northwest Regional Office Acting Director Edward J. Kurtz on November 8, 1977. The statement provided for hand use management zones within the park. Of the 160,290 acres in the park 159,890 were zoned as natural. Within the natural zone were three subzones: wilderness (122,400); outstanding natural feature, i.e., water surface of Crater Lake (11,500); and natural [including hand on which the road system was located] (25,990). The only area in the historic zone was an area of approximately one acre on which the Crater Lake Lodge was located. The lodge had been nominated to the National Register of Historic Places, thus entitling it to protection under Executive Order 11593 and the National Historic Preservation Act of 1964. Five areas in the park were zoned for development:
1. Rim Village on the south rim of the caldera;
2. Munson Valley, located approximately three miles south and 600 feet below the Rim Village area;
3. Mazama Campground near the junction of the south and west entrance roads near Annie Spring;
4. Lost Creek Campground which is located in the southeastern part of the park; and
5. The maintenance area storage yard, approximately five acres, at the south end of the panhandle.
The “Statement for Management” also listed the primary management objectives of the park. These objectives were listed under the following categories:
Conservation of natural resources
Research programs
Interpretation
Management efficiency
Traffic circulation
Environmental awareness
Concessioner programs
Cooperation
Cultural resources [89]
The statements for management were periodically revised in light of changing conditions in the park. [90] The statement approved by Regional Director Daniel J. Tobin, Jr., on March 11, 1983, contained revisions for management zoning based on the recently expanded park boundaries and wilderness designations. Of the total acreage of the park (182,700), some 182,300 acres were zoned as natural. This zone had three subzones: wilderness (148,301); outstanding natural feature–water surface of Crater Lake (11,500); and natural (22,499). The historic zone continued to consist of approximately one acre on which the lodge was located. Six separate areas in the park were zoned for development:
1. Rim Village
2. Munson Valley
3. Mazama Campground
4. Lost Creek Campground
5. Maintenance area storage yard
6. Cleetwood Cove parking area and the boat docks. [91]
The most recent Statement for Management for Crater Lake was approved in August 1986. It contains a somewhat modified list of management objectives. The objectives stress research and cooperation with outside agencies and organizations as a means of increasing management efficiency, insuring continued protection of park resources, and enhancement of the visitors” experiences in the park. The eight objectives are:
1. To secure, through research or other means, adequate information to increase management efficiency and to ensure conservation of park resources.
2. To cooperate with outside agencies, organizations, and members of the public in (a) assuring, to the greatest extent possible, that nearby hands are developed and managed in ways that are compatible with preserving the park’s air and water quality, geological resources, ecological communities, solitude, extreme quiet, and the scenery for which the park is famous; (b) minimizing the adverse effects of public use on the park’s resources through the provision of recreational lodging, and other visitor service facilities in the park’s vicinity; and (c) disseminating information about the park to the general public, with particular emphasis on the regional community.
3. To protect and enhance the natural and scenic values of the park by maintaining an adequate hand base to permit achievement of the park’s purpose.
4. To protect park resources and the safety of park visitors through enforcement of applicable laws, rules and regulations in the park.
5. Provide for the visitor’s enjoyment and appreciation of park resources through primary interpretive emphasis on the park’s geomorphology, but provide also for an understanding of the park’s geology, natural history, history and archeology.
6. Develop a fire management program for the park to facilitate the protection and maintenance of the natural environment.
7. Retain those facilities necessary for visitor use and park management at acceptable standards for health, safety and comfort; and maintain historic structures as near as practicable to their original exterior appearance consistent with the adaptive use of these buildings. Remove those structures where cost of rehabilitation exceeds historic value.
8. Provide the visiting public, through concession operated facilities, the highest quality of accommodations, food service and visitor needs consistent with reasonable pricing and comparability with local business.
