Friends

Your Are Invited to Attend
Friends Of Crater Lake National Park
Annual Meeting
Saturday October 1, 2005

A day to review the past and chart a path to the future.
Just in case it's cold at the park, please remember to bring a warm jacket, no one can predict what the weather may be like so come prepared for fair or foul.

Tho not necessary, if you can please RSVP as soon as possible. We need a headcount for our lunch reservation. 541-783-3136 or a member of the board or email foclnp@alwaysonnetworks.com

The Board of the Friends looks forward to the pleasure ofyour company and your participation in the annual meeting.

The Friends of Crater Lake - 2005

This has been an interesting year for the Friends of Crater Lake. We have continued our traditional projects such as the Winter Rim Information Desk, Roving Interpretation, Adopt-a-Trail and Adopt-a-Boundary. For some projects, participation was down from last year. We'd like to see that trend reversed. For other projects the Friends provided good support.

Construction in the park created, as predicted, disruptions to visitor flow. However, the park was prepared. To this writer's eye, things seemed to move along reasonably well despite the major projects.

The Summer's Construction at the Rim Village Gift Shop and Parking Lot.

The Friends made several direct donations to the park in 2004-2005. Two interpretive exhibits describing the last instance of the lake completely freezing over was restored ($129.98). A set of steps to provide access to the park garbage compactor was provided ($564.47). The Friends purchased three safety signs cautioning park visitors to not enter the caldera ($774.48). During the project weekend, under the direction of park staff, we installed two of these signs.

The Friends Project Weekend in August installing the Cliff Warning Signs.

The Division of Interpretation reports very good support from the Friends for the Winter Rim Desk project and is anxious to continue that program. Training for folks new to the program is scheduled for Saturday November 5, 2005. Park Naturalist Pete Peterson plans to attend the annual meeting on October 1, 2005 and is requesting folks come with their calendars to sign up for Winter Desk duty. Note that I dropped the word "Rim". Due to construction, the building on the rim we used for this work is not habitable. We will be working out of the Steel Information Center at park headquarters.

This summer a number of us volunteered for Roving Interpretation. Friend's volunteers wandered from viewpoint to viewpoint talking to visitors about everything under the sun. All could not say enough great things about how much fun this is to be outside on the caldera rim talking to an amazing variety of people from all over the world. Friend's volunteers are particularly needed during this period of construction and disruption of facilities at Rim Village. If you really want to do something that is needed and have some fun at the same time, get involved with this program.

We started a now project this year. Actually, it is sort of a continuation, but things are firming up. A combined force of NPS staff and Friends made a frontal assault on exotic plants growing at Spruce Lake. Some 40 garbage bags of these invaders were attacked, taken prisoner and removed The Friends contingent bivouacked at Hamaker Campground (USFS). NPS plans look ahead some 10 years to win this war. Plans are shaping up for this battle to be an annual event. Set aside the third weekend in July to participate in this important resource management project

The annual meeting is scheduled for Saturday October 1, 2005. We will follow our general pattern of meeting at the Steel Circle Community Center in Munson Valley for coffee and socialization. We will move over to the historic district and have a tour of the newly completed restoration of the old Superintendent's residence (House 19) and the old Chief Naturalist quarters (House 20). This major restoration project creates a base for the new Science and Learning Center, a major coup for Crater Lake National Park. We plan to have a tour of the work just completed and a discussion of the future of the Center. It should be noted that long time member of the Friends and former board member Greg Hartell was the construction Superintendent for this project. In fact, Greg has been doing restoration work in the park for years and years. He puts his expertise and his heart and soul into this work, and that dedication shows!

FCLNP BOARD MEMBERS      George Buckingham - Chiloquin, OR      John Salinas - Grants Pass, OR      Tom Dew - Medford, OR (President)      Mike Piehl - Roseburg, OR      Donald Rome - Redwood City, MN      Sandie Seifer - Klamath Falls, OR      Larry Smith - Jacksonville, OR      Nona Donahue - Rogue River, OR      Greg Reddell - Klamath Falls, OR      Larry Wright - Roseburg 2005 EVENTS Project Weekend August 26-27, 2005 Contact: George Buckingham/Greg Reddell Summer Rim Volunteer July 16, 2005 Contact: George Buckingham Adopt a Highway May 14, June 25, & August 28, 2005 Contact: Greg Reddell Adopt a Trail & Adopt a Boundary Trails and Boundaries are available Contact: Greg Reddell/George Buckingham Spruce Lake Weed Control July 23-24, 2005 Contact: Greg Reddell Founders Day - Crater Lake Quarter Event cancelled Contact: George Buckingham Winter Rim Desk November 5, 2005 Contact: Greg Reddell Annual Meeting October 1, 2005 Contact: George Buckingham FRIENDS INFORMATION Email foclnp@alwaysonnetworks.com World Wide Web http://www.drizzle.com/~rdpayne/foclnp.html Our Address Friends of Crater Lake National Park P.O. Box 88 Crater Lake, OR 97604 Crater Lake Web Cam Currently turned off during the Rim construction. http://www.craterlakelodges.com/cratercam.htm

The Friends Project Weekend Backcountry Campsite Restoration.