“Every Line on the Map”: An Interview with Wendell Wood
Conducted and Transcribed
by
Stephen R. Mark
Preface
It might appear to some people that Wendell Wood and the Oregon Natural Resources Council (ONRC) occupy a peripheral position in regard to the history of Crater Lake National Park. The park, however, does not exist in an environmental or political vacuum. Conservation groups such as ONRC have played an important role in 20th century Oregon history, of which Crater Lake National Park is a part. Wendell Wood is presently the South Central Field Representative for ONRC, a position which the organization created to bring one of the most prominent environmentalists in Oregon to the Klamath Basin.
This interview took place on May 5 of this year. It served the dual purpose of satisfying a course requirement for History 399, taught by Dr. Todd Carney of Southern Oregon University, and adding to the Crater Lake National Park Oral History Series. Most of this interview is captured in the following transcription. Some explanatory field notes and materials supplied by Mr. Wood are in the park’s history files.
Stephen R. Mark
July 1997
