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1. What were the circumstances that led to your appointment as superintendent at CRLA? Had you known Jim Tobin previously.
2. Had you ever had an assistant superintendent prior to arriving at CRLA? How has such a position worked at CRLA?
3. What sort of regional office support was made available to you upon your arrival at CRLA? Did this change with Tobin’s death?
4. Which park policy areas did you target for change when you arrived at Crater Lake? How many could you address during your first year here?
5. How were CRLA and ORCA associated between 1980 and 1985? Did they share staff after the group office closed?
6. How far did the idea to move headquarters proceed? What were the most significant changes in operations that a move would have forced?
7. What sort of concessions operation did you think was possible in 1984? Did that vision have to be modified over time? Why was the concessioner allowed to have possessory interest in the Mazama cabins and camper store?
8. In your view, was the Rim Village planning secondary to better employee quarters in Munson Valley? What initiated the planning and design work for the new Sleepy Hollow?
9. What was the condition of the CRLA road system in 1984? How did you identify needed changes, such as the two-way circulation around the rim? Were these changes concurrent with better utilities? When were the power lines placed underground?
10. As a manager, how much contact did you have with your CRLA predecessors? What were your main sources of information for protection and resource management problems?
