... The plan is now to build, have the government build, a drive around the lake, so that all these points may be considered in a single day from a carriage. And a great hotel is planned! Any railroad must be made to whisk you through the life-and-vigor giving evergreen forest of Arden. Well, so be it, if you must so mock nature and break the harsh and silence of a thousand centuries, but I shall not be here. No hotel nor house or road of any sort should ever be built near thit Sea of Silence. All our other parks have been surrendered to the hotels and railroads. Let us keep this last and best sacred to the silence and nature. That which is not worth climbing to see is not worth seeing.
- Event log 1900's
- From the "Sea of Silence"
- by Joaquin Miller
- Sunset, September, 1904
- The Steel Scrap Book, Volume 1
- Sunset, September, 1904
- By Alex Sparrow
- Superintendent, Crater Lake National Park, 1921
- Of all the animals in Crater Lake Park, the bear are the best known, owning to their friendly disposition, which is encouraged by permitting them to feed on the garbage near the camps. In only one instance has a bear had courage enough to be troublesome, and he was killed because he had broken into several buildings at Government Camp when food at the dump was scarce; but there is not a case on record of campers being disturbed by them.
- An occasional cougar has been seen; but constant warfare he is waged against these marauders. Dogs must be used to hunt them, as it would be an accident to find one in any other way.
- Coyotes are often heard but seldom seen. It would be hard to estimate the destruction of birds and small mammals traceable to these cowardly pests, and every effort is being made to extreme eight them by means fair or foul.
- Of all the animals in Crater Lake Park, the bear are the best known, owning to their friendly disposition, which is encouraged by permitting them to feed on the garbage near the camps. In only one instance has a bear had courage enough to be troublesome, and he was killed because he had broken into several buildings at Government Camp when food at the dump was scarce; but there is not a case on record of campers being disturbed by them.