Judge
John Breckenridge Waldo
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Judge John Waldo |
John Waldo (1845-1907) was another prominent figure involved in the
establishment of Crater Lake National Park.
With efforts to establish
a national park around Crater Lake effectively stymied by 1889,
Steel began looking for other ways to gain the protection he
sought for this area. An acquaintance of his, Judge John B.
Waldo, advised Steel as early as 1885 that he ought to petition
for reservation of the entire Cascade Range in Oregon. Although
Steel opted for only ten townships around Crater Lake at first,
he remained open to a more ambitious reservation once a national
movement to retain federal ownership of forest lands gained
momentum in the late 1880s.
A member of an Oregon pioneer family that settled east of
Salem in 1843, Waldo served as chief justice of the state
Supreme Court from 1884 to 1886, and won one term as state
representative in 1888. He loved the mountains, avidly read
Thoreau, and spent much of each summer in the wildest and most
remote parts of the Cascades.
[Crater
Lake: The Campaign to Establish a National Park in Oregon]
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