Ohio native William Gladstone Steel helped create Crater Lake National Park, where the lake is most famous for what?
William Gladstone Steel William Gladstone Steel (September 7, 1854 – October 21, 1934), called the "father of Crater Lake", referring to the creation of Crater Lake National Park in Oregon, United States. A native of Ohio, he worked in the newspaper business before becoming a mail carrier. He campaigned Congress for 17 years to designate Crater Lake as a national park.
Mazama Ash The Mazama Ash is a large geologically recent volcanic ash deposit that covers portions of the U.S. states of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Wyoming and Utah, as well as the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta and southwestern Saskatchewan. It was created by a massive explosive eruption of Mount Mazama ~6,900 years ago, during which it collapsed to create the caldera of Crater Lake.