I have a question connected with that. Since Hans Nelson’s thesis is so detailed, was he given project time to his work?
He was given project time because we felt that his contribution was so valuable, that the type of research he was doing was much needed (11). So he was given project time, but he also put in a tremendous amount of time on his own. As I recall, Vic Affolter, who was on the ranger staff at that time, helped him a lot with his research, getting the instruments he needed down to the lake and this sort of thing. He had access to the park boat a great deal of the time. Hans was a highly-energetic, highly professional, well-qualified young man. He was very, very impressive and I’m sure he’s gone a long way since his years at Crater Lake, his seasons there.
He came to the symposium along with Charlie Bacon.
Oh, is that right? When was that?
In May.
In May of this year. Oh, I’ll be darned. I’d have liked to have seen him. He was really a neat guy. I feel badly that I wasn’t aware of that being given (12). I’d certainly have made an effort to get down there.
Did you assist any visiting researchers?
As far as assisting the researchers, no I didn’t because my time was so taken up with the duties of being a seasonal supervisor. Checking with them once in a while, asking them how things were going, if there was anything we could do, or if they needed additional time, this sort of thing, was the extent of my involvement in their activities.
Was Dick Brown as accessible to the seasonal naturalists in his research biologist position from 1966 to 1970?
That’s kind of interesting, looking back on it, No, he wasn’t. I think he was working out of the regional office in San Francisco and there were so many things going on at that time. Somehow, Muir Woods seems to pop into my mind. It seems to me he was pretty heavily involved in that area and he just kind of managed from view, so to speak. Although I still maintained a correspondence and visited with him on a social basis, but not in terms of park service or anything of that nature. It was just like he managed in the same manner when Bruce [Black] left. There was a void, as far as my speaking personally is concerned, because I had such a strong attachment to both those gentlemen.
