To the reader:
I first heard of Ted Arthur in September 1988, during an interview with Dick and Ann Brown, but lacked the opportunity to meet him until the summer of 1992. At that point he was serving as an interpreter on the Diamond Lake Ranger District. His final season at Crater Lake had been more than 20 years before, but Mr. Arthur filled the naturalist role so easily that it hardly seemed possible that so much time had elapsed since the last time he worked in the vicinity of Mount Mazama.
Most of this interview was captured on the following transcription. Some explanatory field notes and subsequent correspondence are in the park’s history files.
Stephen R. Mark
August 1997
Crater Lake National Park, National Park Service, Crater Lake, Oregon 97504
