Complex sentence: Mount Craig was named in honor of Locke Craig, governor of North Carolina from 1913 to 1917 responsible for establishing Mount Mitchell State Park in 1915 as the state's first, thereby protecting the area from excessive logging.
Split into simpler sentences: Mount Craig was named in honor of Locke Craig, who was governor of North Carolina from 1913 to 1917. He was responsible for establishing Mount Mitchell as North Carolina's first state park in 1915, thus protecting the area from any excessive logging.