Katmai Administrative History

(top) Northern Consolidated Airlines built Brooks Camp in 1950, and for years afterward it was the primary access route to the monument as well as Katmai's concessioner. This photo, taken in June 1959 shortly after NCA's Cessna T-50 Bushmaster arrived, looks north along the Naknek Lake shore from Brooks Camp. (bottom) In 1952, prodded by Alaska Delegate Bob Bartlett, the NPS commenced a boundary review study. Shown in an aerial photograph taken that year is the village of Kaguyak, along Shelikof Strait. It was probably Lowell Sumner, an NPS biologist, who marked the boundary and other features on the photo. Little evidence of Kaguyak remains today. (Ward Wells Collection #2074-10, AMHA (top); File 602, KNM Box 311, Entry 7, RG 79, NARASB (bottom) )

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