BONNER COUNTY
GROUSE MOUNTAIN
Kaniksu National Forest
59N-1E-1
59N-1E-1
April 17, 1914: "There will be one of five lookout points on the Pend d'Oreille national forest locally known as Grouse creek lookout. It is planned to have telephone communications completed by July 1." (Pend d"Oreille Review)
August 7, 1914: "The fire which had been raging on the forest reserve 20 miles west of Clarksfork since Sunday night, was gotten practically until control yesterday.
The fire was started by lightning sometime Sunday afternoon and was reported to the forestry officehere at 6 o'clock in the evening from the Grouse mountain lookout. Supervisor Fitzwater, with as many extra men as he could muster, immediately went to the scene and was followed by reinforcements as rapidly as men could be secured, until on Thursday morning he had 100 men fighting the destroying flames." (Pend Oreille Review)
June 30,1916: "Lookout maps have been prepared by placing a contour map on a drawing board and then covering the same with shellac and varnish. The point corresponding to the exact location of the lookout is placed on these maps, and with this point as a center a circular protractor is fastened to the map which reads in degrees. This board is then oriented and placed placed on the corresponding peak and is used as a means of taking observations on fires." (Pend Oreille Review)
December 1, 1916: "Early in April I looked out a trail from Bolan's camp up Grouse Mountain to the Government Lookout Station. Soon after I put four men on and cut a trail to the top of the mountain, about six miles long, then put up a telephone line from Bolan's camp to connect with the Government line already at the top of the mountain, effecting a connection from Sandpoint to Naples by way of Grouse Creek." (Report of Chief Warden - Pend d'Oreille District)
1921: 10 x 10 frame cabin. (Kresek)
June 30, 1921: "Frank Hanson is now a lookout man on Grouse mountain." (Bonners Ferry Herald)
September 4, 1928: "Both the warden and the lookout at Grouse creek mountain were taken off Friday." (Northern Idaho News)
Removed