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About the Crater Lake NP Oral
History Series
Interviewer: Stephen R. Mark,
Crater Lake National Park Historian
Interview
Location and Date:
Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, Oregon,
April 7, 1998
Transcription:
Transcribed by Renee Edwards, September 1998
Biographical
Summary (from interview introduction)
John
Salinas started his work at the park as a seasonal
interpreter from 1978 to 1982. During that time he assisted
Doug Larson with limnological studies of Crater Lake,
something that provided an impetus for Salinas to eventually
complete his master’s degree at Oregon State University.
After an absence lasting two summers, he returned to the
Park in 1988 and continues his intermittent role in the lake
research program under contract. The ever-versatile Salinas
continues to teach a field studies course for Rogue
Community College in the park each year and has regularly
contributed to Nature Notes from Crater Lake. His
articles in the latter encompass subjects as diverse as the
Old Man of the Lake, the Whitehorse Ponds, and a repeat
photography project.
Materials
Associated with this interview on file at the
Dick Brown library at Crater Lake National
Park's Steel Visitor Center
Taped interview; report
on Whitehorse Ponds in park library; several
articles in Nature Notes. One of the principals
in a repeat photography project funded by Crater Lake Natural History Association.
To
the reader:
John
Salinas started his work at the park as a seasonal
interpreter from 1978 to 1982. During that time he assisted
Doug Larson with limnological studies of Crater Lake,
something that provided an impetus for Salinas to eventually
complete his master’s degree at Oregon State University.
After an absence lasting two summers, he returned to the
Park in 1988 and continues his intermittent role in the lake
research program under contract. The ever-versatile Salinas
continues to teach a field studies course for Rogue
Community College in the park each year and has regularly
contributed to Nature Notes from Crater Lake. His
articles in the latter encompass subjects as diverse as the
Old Man of the Lake, the Whitehorse Ponds, and a repeat
photography project.
The
following transcription is from an interview conducted at
Rogue Community College late one afternoon in 1998. Although
I prepared a set of questions for him, the interview flowed
so well that is probably could have been conducted without
them. These and some related correspondence can be found in
the park’s history files.
Stephen R. Mark
Crater Lake National Park Historian
January 2000
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