BOUNDARY COUNTY
HUGHES RIDGE
Kaniksu National Forest
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64N-5W-28
October 22, 1932: "It's going to be a real 'Rock-a-bye Baby on the tree top' for some forest service lookout in the Kaniksu national forest at Hughes Meadows next summer.
The permanent home of this 'lofty lookout' is to be on poles 60 feet above ground, a position that will give him a commanding view of the dense forest region for scores of miles in all directions.
Construction of the exceptional lookout is under way at this time, with Forester Ryan of Newport in charge.
One other station similar to this was constructed last year, Mr. Ryan reported.
The new station is being erected on a small mountain northwest of Upper Priest lake near the border of the new Hughes Meadows airplane landing field belonging to the forestry department." (Spokane Daily Chronicle)
The permanent home of this 'lofty lookout' is to be on poles 60 feet above ground, a position that will give him a commanding view of the dense forest region for scores of miles in all directions.
Construction of the exceptional lookout is under way at this time, with Forester Ryan of Newport in charge.
One other station similar to this was constructed last year, Mr. Ryan reported.
The new station is being erected on a small mountain northwest of Upper Priest lake near the border of the new Hughes Meadows airplane landing field belonging to the forestry department." (Spokane Daily Chronicle)
August 30, 1977: "Janelle Peek spent her summer with one of the best views in North America.
Her job was to keep it from going up in smoke.
Janelle. of Huron, S.D., spent her summer vacation working as a U.S. Forest Service lookout -- one of the vanishing breed -- on a granite peak named Hughes Ridge in Northern Idaho." (The World) Coos Bay