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Crater lake has new superintendent: Craig Ackerman will move from the Oregon Caves National Monument

March 5, 2008

Craig Ackerman, who will move from Oregon Caves National Monument, where he’s been the superintendent the past 17 years, to Crater Lake in early May. He plans to live at the park. Ackerman, 52, will replace Chuck Lundy, who retired in December. Ackerman and his wife, Cynthia, have two grown children.

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Efforts to preserve Oregon pine forest as park site fail - April 6th, 1936

Another section of the ponderosa and sugar pine forest along the Crater Lake highway near here will be cut into lumber. The property has been sold by the Rogue River Timber Company to the Lewis Brothers Lumber Company of Prospect.

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"The gauge went to zero and the engine quit," Boardman remembers. "I said, ‘Well, where am I going to eject?", Bill Boardman, ex-navy pilot, remembering ejecting from his jet and into Crater Lake in 1961 - August 27, 2002

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