FOREST LOOKOUTS
  • IDAHO
  • ADAMS COUNTY
    • Bacon Hill
    • Council Mountain
    • Crooked River Peak
    • Granite Mountain
    • Horse Mountain
    • Indian (Mica)
    • Jackley
    • Kinney Point
    • Lick Creek Point
    • Lockwood Point
    • Peck Mountain
    • Pollock Mountain
    • Smith Mountain
  • BANNOCK COUNTY
    • Chinks Peak
    • Scout Mountain
    • Sedgewick Peak
  • BEAR LAKE COUNTY
    • Meade Peak
  • BENEWAH COUNTY
    • Beaver Mountain
    • Beaver Ridge
    • Carpenter Mountain
    • Charles Butte
    • Davis Point
    • East Dennis
    • Emida Peak
    • Engle Mountain
    • John Point
    • Lindstrom Peak
    • Nakarna Mountain
    • Pettis Point
    • Reeds Baldy
    • Rochat Peak
    • St. Joe Baldy
    • Squaw Hump
    • Sunset Mountain
    • Tyson Peak
    • West Dennis
    • Willow Peak
  • BINGHAM COUNTY
    • East Butte
  • BLAINE COUNTY
    • Bald Mountain
    • Bell Mountain
    • Red Hill
  • BOISE COUNTY
    • Bald Mountain
    • Bull Trout Point
    • Deadwood
    • Dry Buck Mountain
    • Hawley Mountain
    • Jackson Peak
    • Jackson Peak
    • Observation Peak
    • Packer John
    • Picket Mountain
    • Pilot Peak
    • Red Mountain
    • Scott Mountain
    • Shaffer Butte
    • Stevens Point
    • Sunset Mountain
    • Thorn Creek Butte
    • Warm Springs Point
  • BONNER COUNTY
    • Antelope Mountain
    • Atlasta
    • Barton Hump
    • Bear Creek
    • Bee Top Mountain
    • Benning
    • Big Meadows
    • Binarch Mountain
    • Blacktail Mountain
    • Blacktail Mountain
    • Blanchard
    • Blue Mountain
    • Bottle Bay
    • Boulder Mountain
    • Bugle Ridge
    • Butler
    • Cape Horn Peak
    • Caribou (Association)
    • Caribou Hill
    • Clagstone
    • Cottonwood Point
    • Cuban Hill
    • Delyle Ridge
    • East Fork Peak
    • Elk Ridge
    • Elmira Peak
    • Experimental
    • Experimental Spur
    • Faset Peak
    • Gisborne Mountain
    • Gold Peak
    • Granite Mountain
    • Grouse Mountain
    • Honey Mountain
    • Hoodoo
    • Howe Mountain
    • Huckleberry Mountain
    • Jasper Mountain
    • Johnson Peak
    • Lakeview
    • Lakeview
    • Lightning Mountain
    • Lightning Peak
    • Little Blacktail
    • Little Grass
    • Long Mountain
    • Lost Creek Ridge
    • Lunch Peak
    • Moose Mountain
    • Mount Pend Oreille
    • Newport Hill
    • Nickleplate Mountain
    • Packsaddle Mountain
    • Plowboy Mountain
    • Poirier Tree Farm
    • Prater Mountain
    • Quartz Mountain
    • Rapid Lightning
    • Reeder Mountain
    • Roberts mountain
    • Round Top Mountain
    • Sandpoint Baldy
    • Scotchman Peak
    • Scout Point
    • Shaffer Peak
    • Smith Mountain
    • Spruce Divide
    • Stone Johnny
    • Strawberry Mountain
    • Sundance Mountain
    • Tola P:oint
    • Trestle Peak
    • Trout Peak
    • Uleda Point
    • Watson Mountain
    • Whitetail Butte
  • BONNEVILLE COUNTY
    • Black Mountain
  • BOUNDARY COUNTY
    • Bald Eagle
    • Bear Point
    • Bethlehem Mountain
    • Black Mountain
    • Blue Joe
    • Bonners Ferry R.S.
    • Browns mountain
    • Buck Mountain
    • Buckhorn Mountain
    • Burton Peak
    • Bussard Mountain
    • Camels Prairie
    • Canida Peak
    • Caribou Ridge
    • Cedar Ridge
    • Clifty Mountain
    • Continental Mountain
    • Cooks Peak
    • Copeland
    • Copper Mountain
    • Cutoff Peak
    • Deer Ridge
    • Dodge Peak
    • Early Ridge
    • Eddy Peak
    • Farnham Peak
    • Fisher Peak
    • French Ridge
    • Goat Mountain
    • Goblin Knob
    • Grass Mountain
    • Green Bonnet
    • Hall Mountain
    • Harrison Peak
    • Harvey (Mission)
    • Hogue Mountain
    • Horton Ridge
    • Hughes Ridge
    • Hunt Peak
    • Katka Peak
    • Little Snowy Top
    • Lookout Mountain
    • McCormick Ridge
    • Myrtle Peak
    • Queen Mountain
    • Roman Nose Peak
    • Sand Peak
    • Smith Peak
    • Solomon Mountain
    • Squawman Peak
    • Timber Ridge
    • Tungston Mountain
    • Twentymile Peak
    • Two Tail
    • Wall Mountain
    • West Fork
    • White Mountain
  • BUTTE COUNTY
    • Big Southern Butte
  • CAMAS COUNTY
    • Fairfield
    • Iron Mountain
    • Lick Creek
    • Paradise Peak
  • CANYON COUNTY
    • Big Tower
  • CASSIA COUNTY
    • Mt. Harrison
    • Pike Mountain
    • Trapper Peak
  • CLARK COUNTY
    • Lookout Butte
    • Lookout Point
  • CLEARWATER COUNTY
    • Aldermand Ridge
    • Angel Butte
    • Armstrong Peak
    • Balancing Rock
    • Bald Knob
    • Bald Mountain
    • Bar Point
    • Bear Butte
    • Beaver Butte
    • Benton Butte
    • Bertha Hill
    • Big Horn Point
    • Billings
    • Birch Ridge
    • Black Mountain
    • Blacklead Mountain
    • BM Hill
    • Boehls Butte
    • Brown's Creek #1
    • Brown's Creek #2
    • Browns Rock
    • Bruin Hill
    • Buck Butte
    • Cave Point
    • Chateau Rock
    • Clarke Mountain
    • Cold Spring
    • Cook Mountain
    • Crooked Fork
    • Dan Lee (Dewey)
    • Deadhorse
    • Doris Point
    • Dull Axe
    • Eagle Point
    • Elk Butte
    • Elk Mountain
    • Fly Hill
    • Gold Butte
    • Green Mountain
    • Hemlock Butte.
    • Horseshoe Lake
    • Huckleberry Butte
    • Jericho Mountain
    • Lean-to Ridge
    • Little Green Mountain
    • Orofino Creek
    • Osier Ridge
    • Pot Mountain
    • Scofield
    • Scurvy Mountain
    • Shanghai
    • Silver Butte
    • Stocking Meadows
    • Township Butte
    • Wallow Mountain
    • Whiskey Butte
  • CUSTER COUNTY
    • Basin Butte
    • Big Soldier
    • Bowery Guard Station
    • Cape Horn Peak
    • Cottonwood Point
    • Cougar Creek
    • Custer
    • Deadwood Point
    • Estes Mountain
    • Feltham Creek Point
    • Greyhound Mountain
    • Grouse Creek Peak
    • Grouse Peak
    • Horton Peak
    • Iron Creek Point
    • Little Soldier Mountain
    • Lookout Mountain
    • Loon Creek Point
    • McGowan Peak
    • Meridian Peak
    • Mount Greylock
    • Pinyon Peak
    • Potaman Peak
    • Red Wing (Sheep)
    • Rookie Point
    • Ruffneck Peak
    • Sawtooth Valley
    • Sheep Mountain
    • Sherman Peak (Trap)
    • Sliderock Ridge
    • Summit Rock
    • Thompson (Iron)
    • Wildhorse
  • ELMORE COUNTY
    • Bennett Mountain
    • Cayuse Point
    • Danskin Peak
    • House Mountain
    • Lava Mountain
    • Sheep Mountain
    • Steel Mountain
    • Swanholm
    • Trinity Peak
  • FREMONT COUNTY
    • Big Springs
    • Bishop Mountain
    • Elk Butte
    • High Point
    • Warm River Butte
  • GEM COUNTY
    • Squaw Butte
  • IDAHO COUNTY (A-L)
    • Anderson Butte
    • Ant Hill
    • Archer Point
    • Arctic Point
    • Austin Ridge
    • Bad Luck Point
    • Bailey Mountain
    • Bald Mountain (CNF)
    • Bally Mountain
    • Barren Hill
    • Bat Point
    • Battle Creek
    • Bear Mountain
    • Bear Pete
    • Bear Point
    • Bear Wallow
    • Beargrass
    • Beaver Jack
    • Beaver Ridge
    • Bell Point
    • Bemis Point
    • Big Burn Point
    • Big Creek (Patrol)
    • Big Creek Point
    • Big Hill
    • Big Hill (P)
    • Big Rock (62)
    • Big Sand
    • Black Butte
    • Blackhawk Mountain
    • Blacktail (Frisco)
    • Blacktail Butte
    • Blue Joint
    • Buffalo Hump
    • Burnt Knob
    • Burnt Strip
    • Butts Creek Point
    • Carey Dome
    • Castle Butte
    • Cedar Knob
    • Chair Point
    • Chicken Peak
    • Cold Mountain
    • Coolwater
    • Corral Hill
    • Cottonwood Butte
    • Cottonwood Butte
    • Cub Point
    • Diablo Mountain
    • Double Creek Ridge
    • Dry Diggins
    • Eakin Point
    • Elk Summit
    • Elkhorn Mountain
    • Fish Butte
    • Fog Mountain
    • Freeman Peak
    • Gardiner Peak
    • Grave Peak
    • Green Mountain
    • Harrington Mountain
    • Heavens Gate
    • Hells Half Acre Mountain
    • Hershey Point
    • Hida Point
    • High Spring
    • Highline
    • Indian Hill
    • Indian Post Office
    • Indian Ridge (Pettibone)
    • Jay Point
    • Jerry Johnson
    • John Day Mountain
    • Lake Creek Point
    • Lone Pine
    • Lookout Butte
  • IDAHO COUNTY (M-W)
    • Magruder Mountain
    • Mammouth Mountain
    • Maple Lake
    • Marble Point
    • Marshall Point
    • Maxwell Point
    • McConnell Mountain
    • Meadow Creek
    • Meeker Ridge
    • Middle Butte
    • Mink Point
    • Moccasin Point
    • Mocus Point
    • Moe Peak
    • Mount Aura
    • Mount George
    • Nelson (Mill Creek)
    • Nezperce Peak
    • Nolan Point
    • Nut Basin
    • Pettibone Ridge
    • Pilot Knob
    • Porters Mountain
    • Quartz Ridge
    • Ramey Ridge
    • Rocky Point
    • Rocky Point
    • Roots Knob
    • Round Top Mountain
    • Salmon Mountain
    • Savage Ridge
    • Shearer Peak
    • Sheep Hill
    • Sheepeater Mountain
    • Shissler Peak
    • Slate Point
    • Spot Mountain
    • Squaw Peak (Wahoo)
    • Steamboat Peak
    • Stoddard Creek Point
    • Swet Lake
    • Three Prong
    • Tony Point
    • Twin Butte
    • Vance Mountain
    • War Eagle
    • Weasel Point
    • Weitas Butte
    • Wolf Point
    • Wood Hump
    • Woodrat Mountain
    • Wounded Doe Ridge
    • Wylies Peak
  • KOOTENAI COUNTY
    • Bernard Peak
    • Boise Peak
    • Boundary Peak
    • Buckles
    • Burnt Cabin Knob
    • Canfield Butte
    • Carrill Peak
    • Cataract Peak
    • Cedar Mountain
    • Chilco North
    • Chilco South
    • Colt Mountain
    • Copper Mountain
    • Dudley Peak
    • Eagle Peak
    • Echo Peak
    • Elk Mountain
    • Frost Peak
    • Hamilton Mountain
    • Hemlock Mountain
    • Huckleberry Mountain
    • Hudlow Mountain
    • Jackknife Peak
    • Spades Mountain
    • Swan Peak
  • LATAH COUNTY
    • Bald Mountain
    • Ball Butte
    • Beals Butte
    • Boulder Mountain
    • Chambers Hill
    • East Gold Hill
    • Flynn Butte
    • Gold Hill
    • Mason Butte
    • McGary Butte
    • Mica Mountain
    • Mineral Mountain
    • Mission Mountain
    • Moscow Mountain (East)
    • Moscow Mountain (West)
    • Mount Margaret
    • Potato Hill
    • Preston Knob (ELO)
    • Prospect Peak
    • Rocky Point
    • Sand Creek
    • Sherwin Point
    • Three Tree Butte
    • Turnbow Point (Patrol)
    • West Emerald
    • West Gold Hill
    • West Twin
  • LEMHI COUNTY
    • Anderson Mountain
    • Alan Mountain
    • Baldy
    • Beartrap
    • Blackbird Mountain
    • Blue Nose
    • Corn Lake
    • Duck Creek Point
    • Flume Creek Point
    • Fly Creek Point
    • Gant Mountain
    • Granite Mountain
    • Haystack Mountain
    • Horse Heaven
    • Hot Springs
    • Indian Peak
    • Indian Point
    • Jureano Mountain
    • Lake Mountain
    • Long Tom
    • Martin Mountain
    • McEleny Mountain
    • Meyers Cove
    • Middle Fork Peak
    • Napolean Hill
    • Oreana
    • Poison Peak
    • Red Rock Mountain
    • Sagebrush
    • Sal Mountain
    • Sheep Mountain...
    • Sheepeater Point
    • Sheephorn Mountain
    • Skunk Camp
    • Sleeping Deer Mountain
    • Square Top
    • Squaw Peak
    • Stein Mountain
    • Stormy Peak
    • Sugarloaf
    • Swan Peak
    • Taylor Mountain
    • Twin Peaks
    • Ulysses Mountain
    • West Horse
    • White Goat
    • Woodtick Summit
  • LINCOLN COUNTY
    • Notch Butte
  • MADISON COUNTY
    • Lookout Mountain
  • MINIDOKA COUNTY
    • Kimama Butte
  • OWYHEE COUNTY
    • South Mountain
  • PAYETTE COUNTY
    • Sand Hollow
  • POWER COUNTY
    • Mosby Butte
  • SHOSHONE COUNTY
    • Adams Peak
    • Agatha Creek
    • Anthony Peak
    • Arid Peak
    • Avery Hill
    • Bad Tom
    • Bald Mountain..
    • Bathtub Mountain
    • Bearskull
    • Beaver Peak
    • Beaver Peak
    • Beetle Hump
    • Berge Peak
    • Bernier Point
    • Big Creek
    • Big Dick Point
    • Binocular Point
    • Black Peak
    • Blackjack Peak
    • Cedar Mountain
    • Cemetery Ridge
    • Conrad Peak
    • Cougar Peak..
    • Dunn Peak
    • Flash Peak
    • Freezeout Ridge (Mtn)
    • Grandmother Mountain
    • Grassy Mountain
    • Griffith Peak
    • Grizzly Mountain
    • Hoyt Mountain
    • Huckleberry Mountain
    • Incline Ridge
    • Kellogg Peak
    • Lemonade Peak
    • Little Joe Mountain
    • Mallard Peak
    • McDonald Peak
    • Middle Sister Mountain
    • Pine Point
    • Polaris Peak
    • Pulaski
    • Snow Peak
    • Spyglass Peak
    • Striped Peak
    • Sunset Peak
    • Surveyors Ridge
    • West Elk Peak
  • TETON COUNTY
    • Garns Mountain
  • TWIN FALLS COUNTY
    • Castleford
    • Evans Ranch
    • Unnamed #1
    • Unnamed 2
  • VALLEY COUNTY
    • Acorn Butte
    • Artillary Dome
    • Bear Creek Point
    • Bear Valley Mountain
    • Bearskin
    • Big Baldy Mountain
    • Black Butte....
    • Black Mare
    • Boulder Mountain
    • Brundage
    • Center Mountain
    • Chilcoot Peak
    • Cougar Rock
    • Deer Creek Point
    • Duck Lake
    • Eagan Point
    • Eagle Rock
    • Eagle's Nest
    • East Mountain
    • Eureka Point
    • Fletcher Butte
    • Gold Fork
    • Gold Fork Rock
    • Gray's Peak (North)
    • Horse Mountain
    • Indian Ridge
    • Krassel Knob
    • Lightning Peak
    • Little Baldy
    • Log Mountain (Baldy)
    • Lookout Mountain
    • Lookout Peak
    • Meadow Creek
    • Miners Peak
    • Morehead Mountain >
      • Work Party - 2015
    • No Business
    • Norton Ridge
    • Parks Peak
    • Pearl Creek Point
    • Pilot Peak
    • Point 7965
    • Rice Peak (Blue Point)
    • Rush Creek Point
    • Shellrock Peak
    • Short Creek
    • Silver Creek Point
    • Split Creek Point
    • Tailholt Peak
    • Teapot Dome
    • Thunderbolt Mountain
    • Tripod Peak
    • Two Point Peak
    • Whitehawk
    • Williams Peak.
  • WASHINGTON COUNTY
    • Cuddy Point
    • Sturgill Peak
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New material added:  7/7/2019

IDAHO COUNTY   (A -L)

ANDERSON BUTTE

Nez Perce National Forest  -  29N-9E-3
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ANT HILL

Clearwater National Forest  -  35N-8E-29
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ARCHER POINT

Nez Perce National Forest  -  30N-13E-20
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ARCTIC POINT

Payette National Forest  -  25N-12E-30
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AUSTIN RIDGE

Clearwater National Forest  -  35N-6E-26
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BAD LUCK POINT

Bitterroot National Forest  -  30N-14E-33
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BAILEY MOUNTAIN

Nez Perce National Forest  -  34N-13E-30
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BALD MOUNTAIN

Clearwater National Forest  -  36N-10E-20
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BALLY MOUNTAIN

Payette National Forest  -  21N-2E-31
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BARREN HILL

Nez Perce National Forest  -  34N-12E-29
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BAT POINT

Nez Perce National Forest  -  26N-10E-19
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BATTLE CREEK

Nez Perce National Forest  -  33N-14E-10
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BEAR MOUNTAIN (BEARGRASS MOUNTAIN)

Clearwater National Forest  -  36N-12E-26
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BEAR PETE  MOUNTAIN

Payette National Forest  -  22N-4E-4
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BEAR POINT

Nez Perce National Forest  -  26N-11E-36
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BEAR WALLOW

Nez Perce National Forest  -  32N-11E-11
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BEARGRASS

Nez Perce National Forest  -  31N-8E-21
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BEAVER JACK

Bitterroot National Forest  -  28N-14E-23
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BEAVER RIDGE

Clearwater National Forest  -  37N-17E-10
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BELL POINT

Nez Perce National Forest  -  33N-14E-5
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BEMIS POINT

Payette National Forest  -  23N-7E-31
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BIG BURN POINT

Nez Perce National Forest  -  30N-5E-33
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BIG CREEK (PATROL LO)

Nez Perce National Forest
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BIG CREEK POINT

Nez Perce National Forest  -  33N-15E-28
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BIG HILL

 Clearwater National Forest  -  33N-7E-31
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BIG HILL

Payette National Forest  -  21N-14E-20
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BIG ROCK (62)

Nez Perce National Forest  -  33N-11E-14
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BIG SAND

National Forest  -  34N-15E-15

BLACK BUTTE

Nez Perce National Forest  -  25N-5E-20
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BLACKHAWK MOUNTAIN

Nez Perce National Forest  -  29N-10E-31
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BLACKTAIL (FRISCO PEAK)

Nez Perce National Forest  -  33N-11E-9
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BLACKTAIL BUTTE

Nez Perce National Forest  -  30N-4E-31
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BLUE JOINT

Nez Perce National Forest  -  26N-15E-26
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BOSTON MOUNTAIN

Nez Perce National Forest  -  27N-10E-26

1920's:  A crow's nest established.

c.1931:  A 60-foot round native pole tower with an L-6 cab constructed.  Also a log living quarters cabin built.

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1958:  The lookout structure destroyed.

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BOUNDARY PEAK

Clearwater National Forest  -  35N-7E-13

1981:  "The point was first manned in 1933 with the lookout quartered in a tent camp.  The point was manned each season thereafter until 1951.
     In 1934, Rufus Robinson with unknown helpers, under the direction of District Ranger Roy Lewis, built a 20' high log tower with an L-4 cabin.  Construction cost was $488.00.
     The tower was left in place until 1954 and was condemned and burned after all above ground lightning protection material was salvaged."  (Louis Hartig, 'Historic Facilities of the Lochsa Ranger District' - 1981)
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BOUNDARY POINT

Nez Perce National Forest  -  27N-6E-29

1937:  A camp established.

1941:  The camp abandoned.
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BOX CANYON

Payette National Forest  -  23N-2E-2

c.1930:  crow's-nest
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BOX CAR MOUNTAIN

Nez Perce National Forest  -  30N-12E-21

1928:  A camp established.

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1939:  The camp dismantled.

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BRUSH HILL TREES

Clearwater National Forest  -  34N-7E-21
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BUCKTAIL BUTTE

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BUFFALO HUMP

Nez Perce National Forest - 26N-6E-3
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BURGDORF SUMMIT

Payette National Forest  -  23N-7E-21

1920's;  crow's-nest

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BURNT KNOB

Payette National Forest  -  25N-10E-31
1936 - R-4 History Collection, Ogden

1933:  15-foot pole tower with L-4 cab.


1960:  Destroyed

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​BURNT KNOB

Nez Perce - Bitterroot National Forest  -  27N-12E-5
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BURNT STRIP MOUNTAIN

 Bitterroot National Forest  -  29N-15E-19

c.1939:  cabin

c.1955:  Destroyed

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BURPEE MOUNTAIN

Nez Perce National Forest  -  26N-8E-17

c.1930:  A log cabin built.

1940:  The site abandoned.
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BUTTS CREEK POINT

Salmon National Forest  -  23N-14E-4
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CALIFORNIA POINT

Clearwater National Forest  -  35N-12E-32

1981:  "This point was manned only during the summer of 1939 with the lookout living in a tent camp.  To get a better view of the surrounding terrain, a platform was rigged about 25 feet off the ground in a green tree with the tree top projected through it.  There was no map-stand on the platform.
     For communication, two miles of number nine, galvanized iron wire was strung up a ridge from the Fish Lake-McConnell Mountain telephone line and hooked to an iron telephone hung on a tree by the tent."  (Louis Hartig, 'Historic Facilities of the Lochsa Ranger District' - 1981)
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CANTALOUPE PEAK

Clearwater National Forest  -  34N-9E-11

1934:  camp

1942:  Abandoned

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CAREY DOME

Payette National Forest - 24N-4E-24
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CASTLE BUTTE

Clearwater National Forest  -  36N-10E-28
August 16, 2011 - Ron Kemnow photo

1981:  "The point was first occupied as a full time seasonal lookout in 1914 when Middlefork District Ranger Joseph McGhee sent Wolford Renshaw and his brother Hubert, with their horses and camp outfit, from Number one R.S. to man the peak as lookout and smokechaser.
     In 1915 Castle Butte smokechasers Wolford Renshaw and Shelton McPherson cut and peeled logs for cabin sills at Castle.  In 1916 the lumber stored at Bald Mtn. was packed over and a cabin was built on the rock capped peak.  Though crude by later standards, this was the first observatory on the Fish Lake District and it did have windows on all sides so employees dubbed it "The House of Glass".  The cabin was in use until 1929 when it was replaced by the more up-to-date L-3 log lookout cabin with a cupola for the firefinder and observer.
     Harry Chenoweth and Russell Stadtman dismantled the "House of Glass" in 1929 and in its stead built a new L-3 type cabin.  The L-3 was designed with a lower room about twelve feet square which was used for living quarters.  The fire-finder was housed in a five or six foot square, glass-enclosed observatory that projected through the roof.  The lower walls of this cabin were built of logs cut a year earlier; gable ends, roof and cupola were built of lumber covered with shingles or shakes.
     The cabin was used each summer until 1950 when it was replaced by an L-4 type structure.
     In August of 1950, Howard Beebe, a carpenter from Weippe, with guard Bill O'Brien and one or two other helpers began work on the new lookout cabin.  It was erected on a 7' high understory of the stone that is so abundant on the peak.  The cabin was one of the several that had been pre-cut at the Pierce carpenter shop during the previous winter.  To make the building more sturdy, all lumber, including catwalk railings, were cut full length.  There was no splicing as in some of the earlier pack-in-type cabins.
     It was built along side the old cabin which was used as crew quarters until the new one was ready for occupancy.  Construction cost was $1711.00.  Logs salvaged from the old cabin were, over a period of years, sawed up for wood to stoke the lookout's cook stove.  Some time around 1970 the lookout was abandoned."  (Louis Hartig, 'Historic Facilities of the Lochsa Ranger District' - 1981)

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CEDAR KNOB

Clearwater National Forest  -  34N-7E-27
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CHAIR POINT

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CHAIR POINT
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CHICKEN PEAK

Payette National Forest  -  23N-9E-31
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CLEAR CREEK

Nez Perce National Forest  -  31N-6E-32

1931:  20-foot tower with L-4 cab.

1949:  Abandoned
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COLD MOUNTAIN

Payette National Forest  -  22N-12E-14
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COLD SPRINGS

Nez Perce National Forest  -  25N-1W-15

1930:  log cabin

1958:  41-foot treated timber tower with R-6 cab.


1979:  Destroyed
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COLUMBIA RIDGE

Nez Perce National Forest  -  27N-7E-33

c.1933:  50-foot pole tower with L-4 cab.

1963:  Destroyed

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CONCORD

National Forest  -  26N-7E-18

c.1930:  camp
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COOLWATER

Clearwater National Forest  -  33N-8E-33
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COOPER POINT

Bitterroot National Forest  -  29N-15E-26

1930's:  camp

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COOPERATION POINT

Clearwater National Forest  -  36N-13E-27

1934:  pole tower with L-4 cab

1950:  Destroyed
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CORRAL HILL

Nez Perce National Forest  -  30N-5E-3
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1929:  40-foot tower

1953:  41-foot treated timber tower with an L-4 cab.

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COTTONTAIL POINT

Payette National Forest  -  24N-6E-32

1934:  72-foot steel tower.
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COTTONWOOD

Private  -  30N-3W-23

1929:  log cabin with roof platform.


1965:  Destroyed

COTTONWOOD BUTTE

Idaho Department of Lands     32N-1W-33
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COTTONWOOD BUTTE

Payette National Forest - 23N-14E-31
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CRANE HILL

Nez Perce National Forest  -  31N-5E-2

c.1933:  30-foot tower with L-4 cab.

1954:  Destroyed
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CROFOOT POINT (PATROL LO)

Nez Perce National Forest

CROSS TRAILS

Nez Perce National Forest  -  25N-6E-26

CUB POINT

Bitterroot National Forest  -  31N-14E-25
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DAIRY MOUNTAIN

Nez Perce National Forest  -  27N-3E-17

1927:  75-foot crow's-nest

1945:  45-foot pole tower with L-4 cab


1960:  Destroyed
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DAN RIDGE

Clearwater National Forest  -  36N-17E-9

1934:  30-foot pole tower with L-4 cab.


1973:  Destroyed

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DEAD ELK POINT

Nez Perce National Forest  -  34N-15E-25

1930's:  camp

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DENNIS MOUNTAIN

Bitterroot National Forest  -  26N-12E-26

1930:  camp
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DENT POINT

Nez Perce National Forest  -  30N-9E-26

c.1933:  tower with L-4 cab.

1950:  Abandoned

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DIABLO MOUNTAIN

Clearwater National Forest  -  34N-15E-7
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DISGRACE BUTTE

Nez Perce National Forest  -  30N-10E-26

1935:  30-foot tower with L-4 cab


1950:  Abandoned
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DOE POINT

Clearwater National Forest  -  34N-11E-36

c.1930:  camp

1981:  "Doe Point was an overload or emergency lookout.  Each Ranger District had a number of such lookouts in the fire plan as determined by elapsed travel time, fuel types and seen area.  The points were to be manned when fire danger reached a predetermined critical stage.  Actual manning was usually left to the discretion of the District Ranger.  Evidently it was expected that Doe Point would be manned rather frequently as a telephone line was extended there from Rhoda Point in 1938 or '39.  As it turned out the point was manned only one or two seasons between 1938 and '41, and then abandoned.  Since the lookout man stayed in a tent camp there was not much to abandon."  (Louis Hartig, 'Historic Facilities of the Lochsa Ranger District' - 1981)
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DOG POINT

Nez Perce National Forest  -  32N-13E-22

1937:  log cabin


1939:  Abandoned
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DOME HILL

Nez Perce National Forest  -  27N-5E-17

c.1938:  camp

1942:  Abandoned
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DOUBLE CREEK RIDGE

Nez Perce National Forest  -  33N-13E-2
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DRY DIGGINS

Nez Perce National Forest  -  24N-2W-33
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DRY POINT

Clearwater National Forest  -  33N-7E-2

1981:  "The date of construction of this tower has not been determined.  The structure consisted of an L-4 cabin on a 20-foot-high log tower built at a cost of $1113.00.  It is also not known when the place was last manned.  It was not manned in 1956.  The tower and cabin were burned in 1963."  (Louis Hartig, 'Historic Facilities of the Lochsa Ranger District' - 1981)
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EAGLE CREEK POINT

National Forest  -  29N-13E-8

c.1933:  camp

1951:  Abandoned
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EAGLE MOUNTAIN

Clearwater National Forest  -  35N-11E-32

1981:  "1915 was the first year that Eagle Mtn. was manned as a regular season lookout.  Sometime in July, Sam Weholt and Al Peterson were set up for business in a tent camp near the observation point.
     At Eagle Mtn. the two men installed a post in the rocks on top of the peak on which they mounted their Koch baseboard and map.  Communication with Castle Butte was established sometime in August.  The telephone line was number nine galvanized iron wire from Castle Butte to the Lochsa River and emergency wire from there to Eagle.
     As far as is known, this lookout was manned each season, using tent quarters, until 1920.  Since there were no improvements at the point, abandonment consisted of loading the camp on a pack string and pulling out.
     The Mountain was again used in 1922 when smokechaser Jess Mosher, camped at End Butte and made scheduled foot patrols out to Eagle Mtn. to scan the country for smoke from this vantage point."  (Louis Hartig, 'Historic Facilities of the Lochsa Ranger District' - 1981)
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EAKIN POINT

Bitterroot National Forest  -  25N-13E-14
EAKIN POINT
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ELK BUTTE

National Forest  -  25N-5E-13

1930's:  camp
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ELK CITY

Nez Perce National Forest  -  29N-8E-25

c.1930:  tower with L-4 cab


1942:  Abandoned
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ELK RIDGE

Nez Perce National Forest  -  32N-15E-31

1935:  camp

1942:  Abandoned
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ELK SUMMIT

Clearwater National Forest  -  35N-14E-36

1924:  cupola cabin

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ELK SUMMIT

Nez Perce National Forest  -  29N-7E-1
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ELKHORN MOUNTAIN

Bitterroot National Forest  -  25N-13E-29

1933:  L-4 cab

July 12, 1958:  "Two men waiting in the woods with a damaged helicopter will have to spend another day there because the parts needed to repair the craft didn't arrive in Missoula Friday in time to be shipped to them.
     The helicopter was disabled Wednesday in landing at Elkhorn Point lookout in the Selway-Bitterroot primitive area north of the Salmon River breaks in Idaho.
     The trip to them will be made Saturday with another helicopter carrying blades for the rear rotor and a rotor shaft along with a mechanic.
     The two men are Stan Greenup, a Bitterroot National Forest Employe, and Fred Gerlach of Missoula, pilot who flew Greenup to the lookout to prepare it for summer use."  (Billings Gazette)

1959:  R-6 cab atop a 10-foot concrete base.

1991:  Destroyed
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END BUTTE

Nez Perce National Forest  -  34N-11E-8

1922:  Established as an observation point with a tent camp.

1939:  A ten-foot log tower with a L-4 cab was erected.

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1955 or 6:  Lookout was condemned and burned.

1981:  "End Butte was first used as an observation point in 1922 when Fish Lake District Ranger Al Kolmorgan set a tent camp in a little meadow at the head of Wounded Doe Creek about 3/4 mile from the top of the Butte.  Scheduled patrols were made to End Butte and out the ridge to Eagle Mtn.  Telephone communication with Boulder Creek R.S. via an emergency wire line tied into the emergency line which at that time connected Stanley Butte to the iron wire line at Fish Lake Saddle.
      End Butte was not manned again until 13 years later.  During the 1935 season a lookout with tent quarters was placed near the top of the Butte and a galvanized iron wire telephone line was built in from Fish Lake Saddle.  The tent camp was used each summer through 1939, when at a cost of $1224.00, Ranger Hans Roeffler had material packed in and built an L-4 lookout cabin on a 10' log tower in the rocks on the top of the peak.  The tower was manned seasonally through 1952, at which time aerial detection made the structure obsolete.  It was condemned and burned in 1955 or 1956."  (Louis Hartig, 'Historic Facilities of the Lochsa Ranger District' - 1981)
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FALL CREEK POINT

Nez Perce National Forest  -  29N-6E-25

c.1930:  Two-story log cabin with cupola.

1950:  Abandoned
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FALLS POINT

Nez Perce National Forest  -  31N-9E-9

c.1933:  L-4 cab

1950:  Abandoned
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FAWN RIDGE

Bitterroot National Forest  -  24N-13E-10

c.1939:  camp
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FIRE CREEK POINT

Clearwater National Forest  -  33N-9E-29

1930's:  camp

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FIRE MOUNTAIN

Bitterroot National Forest  -  29N-13E-35

1930's:  camp

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FISH BUTTE

Clearwater National Forest  -  35N-8E-36

1981:  The first seasonal lookout at this point was a cedar bark shelter located about 3/4 mile northwest of the observation point.  Several years earlier the Butte was used as a patrol lookout and a post was set at the summit for the map-board.
      In 1919 the lookouts set up their tent camp a short distance below the observation point.  In the beginning a heliograph was used as communications with Coolwater Lookout. A telephone line was completed that summer and connected Fish Butte to Kooskia.
     "In 1921 and '22 a log cabin about 14'x16' in size was built on a little bench about 150' NW from the top of the peak.  The log cabin served as lookout quarters until 1930.
     In 1930 enough of the granite boulders on top of the butte were blasted off to provide a flat place for a cabin.  On the flattened area, District carpenter Earnest Hartman and Fish Butte lookout Lloyd McHone erected the 14-foot square, 8-foot-high log base.  Atop the base they assembled the 14 x 14 pre-cut, glass enclosed combination observatory and living quarters from material that had been packed to the point by mule train.  Construction cost was $471.00.
     There was no catwalk around the outside to raise shutters and secure the shutter braces, working on a rickety pole stepladder, a man working alone had to be both an acrobat and a daredevil.
     This cabin was manned through the 1953 season, then dismantled after a new cabin was completed.  Logs were saved for wood stove and the remaining debris was burned."
     In 1953 a steep, narrow road was built from Fish Butte Saddle to the lookout to help facilitate the moving of materials for the new lookout.
     "Dynamite was used to flatten more of the rock along side the old cabin, on this site the new structure was built.  It had a concrete floor and an eight foot high understory of concrete blocks on which the modified L-4 lookout cabin was put together.  All the lumber was cut to full length for a sturdier building.  Total cost of material and construction was $2531.00.
     The lookout was last used in the late 1960's or early 1970's and then abandoned."  (Louis Hartig, 'Historic Facilities of the Lochsa Ranger District' - 1981)
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FISH CREEK

Nez Perce National Forest  -  29N-3E-15

1931:  75-foot steel tower
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FOG MOUNTAIN

Nez Perce National Forest  -  32N-10E-20
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FREE USE POINT

Nez Perce National Forest  -  28N-2E-24

1931:  20-foot pole tower with L-4 cab.


1953:  Destroyed

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FREEMAN PEAK

Nez Perce National Forest  -  32N-13E-1
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FRENCHMAN BUTTE

Clearwater National Forest  -  34N-7E-2

1933:  50-foot tower with L-4 cab.

1981:  "In 1933 Earnest Hartman and Richard Stadtman built an L-4 cabin on a 50' tower at a cost of $915.   The structure was used seasonally until the late 1940's or early 1950's, then dropped from the fire plan.
     By 1960 the stairway had become hazardous to climb so the tower was tumbled to the ground and burned after lightning protection fixtures has been salvaged.  A garage built at the lookout in 1936 was burned in about 1958."  (Louis Hartig, 'Historic Facilities of the Lochsa Ranger District' - 1981)
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c.1960:  The tower was toppled and burned.

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GARDINER PEAK

gardiner peak
Nez Perce National Forest  -  30N-14E-6
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GATEWAY PEAK

Nez Perce National Forest  -  34N-14E-25

c.1926:  camp

1939:  Abandoned

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GEDNEY MOUNTAIN

Nez Perce National Forest  -  33N-10E-31

1934:  cabin

1934:  Burned in wildfire.
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GLENWOOD TREE

Clearwater Timber Protective Association  -  33N-5E-2
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GODDARD POINT

Nez Perce National Forest  -  31N-7E-9

1930's:  camp

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GOLD HILL

Clearwater National Forest  -  35N-10E-28

1931:  A 30-foot round timber tower with a L-4 cab was built.

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1954:  The tower was cut down and later burned.

1981:  "The point was manned for the first time in 1931 and that same year Earnest Hartman and Harry Chenoweth were moved to Gold Hill under the direction of Ranger Fred Shaner and there they built a 30' high log tower on top of which they assembled a pre-cut L-4 lookout cabin.  Material for the cabin was packed in from roads end at Bimerick Creek by mule train and as in all cases of offroad tower construction, sand, gravel and cement for the concrete piers on which the four tower legs were to set and anchored, was also moved in by pack string.  Sand and gravel were available on the Lochsa River, near the station.  When the tower and cabin were completed, the lookout man moved in and, with very few exceptions, the point was manned each season until 1951.
     In 1954 Assistant Ranger Charles Smith sawed two legs off the tower and dumped it on the ground where it was later burned.  Only the completely barren hill on which the tower was located saved it from being burned in the 1934 fire."  (Louis Hartig. 'Historic Facilities of the Lochsa Ranger District' - 1981)
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GOLD MEADOWS

Clearwater National Forest  -  35N-11E-16

1981:  "In 1937 lookout-fireman Lester Felton was set up for business in a tent camp at the Gold Meadows observation point on the ridge top.  Trail #206 passed right by his camp, as did the telephone line.  Les with a helper built a small log cabin at the point.  It was about 8' x 10' in size and when finished was used for sleeping quarters and supply storage, cooking was done in the tent set up in front of the cabin.  The set up at this location didn't last long.  It may have been manned one more year, but by 1939 the observer had been moved to Sponge Mtn. about two miles to the south but still on Trail #206."  (Louis Hartig, 'Historic Facilities of the Lochsa Ranger District' - 1981)
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GOOSE CREEK POINT (PATROL LO)

Nez Perce National Forest
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GRANITE PEAK

Nez Perce National Forest  -  29N-11E-10

c.1934:  camp


1939:  Abandoned

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GRASS MOUNTAIN

Payette National Forest  -  24N-12E-26

1920's:  tent camp

1934:  L-4 cab

1978:  Destroyed
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GRAVE BUTTE

Clearwater National Forest  -  36N-11E-17

1981:  "The butte was first used as a seasonal detection point in 1928 when Ranger Ralph Hand set up a tent camp on the south side of the peak perhaps 1/4 mile from the top.
     Construction of an L-3 lookout cabin began in 1929.
     Before the cabin was finished, the Bald Mtn. fire blew up and endangered the lookout.  The crew was ordered to evacuate the camp, but before leaving they built a trench around the area and burned out the inside.  Everything inside the trench was saved.  By 1930, Ranger Fred Shaner had taken over the District.  He sent Earnest Hartman and Harry Chenoweth in to finish the cabin that summer.  In time, the lookout man added a shake covered woodshed, a root cellar and the usual Chic Sales (outhouse) to complete the complex.
     Grave Butte was last manned in 1940, but it was 1954 before the buildings were condemned and the packer went in to rescue usable items before Bill O'Brien went in to do the torch job."  (Louis Hartig, 'Historic Facilities of the Lochsa Ranger District' - 1981)
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GRAVE MEADOW

Nez Perce National Forest  -  30N-11E-3

1939:  camp

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GRAVE PEAK

Clearwater National Forest  -  35N-15E-8
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GRAVE POINT

Nez Perce National Forest  -  27N-1E-30
no date - U.S. Forest Service
1923 - (under construction) Public Domain image

1922:  camp

1924:  log cabin with cupola

1954:  41-foot treated timber tower with L-4 cab

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GREEN CREEK POINT

Nez Perce National Forest  -  30N-5E-6
no date - National Archives, Seattle

1931:  100-foot steel tower erected.

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GREEN MOUNTAIN

green mountain
Nez Perce National Forest  -  28N-11E-15
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GREEN RIDGE (PATROL LO)

Clearwater National Forest    
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GROUSE CREEK POINT

Nez Perce National Forest  -  27N-11N-16

1930's:  camp
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GROUSE POINT

Clearwater National Forest  -  35N-9E-9

1934:  A 30-foot round timber tower with a L-4 cab was erected.

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August 1934:  The lookout was destroyed in the Pete King fire.  The site was not used again.

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1981:  Grouse Point was manned for the first time in 1933 when a tent camp was set up with Russell Stadtman as lookout man.  Slim Tunstill was sent up as carpenter foreman to build a 30' log tower and L-4 cabin.  Stadtman and two other men helped with construction which was completed that year.  In 1934, the tower was manned for the first and last time.  In August of 1934 fire burned it to the ground.  The point was never manned again."  (Louis Hartig, 'Historic Facilities of the Lochsa Ranger District' - 1981)
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GROUSE RIDGE

Nez Perce National Forest  -  29N-12E-2

1926:  crow's-nest


1928:  log cabin with cupola.


c.1950:  Destroyed

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HANOVER MOUNTAIN

Nez Perce National Forest  -  26N-4E-34

1931:  smokechasers cabin????
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HARD BUTTE

Payette National Forest  -  22N-2E-9

1917:  camp with alidade platform.

c.1933:  L-4 cab

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HEAVENS GATE

Nez Perce National Forest  -  23N-1W-5
HEAVENS GATE
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HELLS HALF ACRE MOUNTAIN

Bitterroot National Forest
no date - USFS photo
August 11, 2012 - Ron Kemnow photo

1930:  40-foot tree platform

1940:  40-foot pole tower with L-4 cab.


1960:  R-6 cab atop a 10-foot cinder block first floor.


July 26, 2013:   The lookout structure was wrapped in a fire retardant material as a precaution to an oncoming wildfire threat.  The lookout staff were temporarily moved to Salmon Mountain.
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HERSHEY POINT
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HIDA POINT

Payette National Forest  -  25N-10E-10
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HIDDEN PEAK

Clearwater National Forest  -  35N-17E-16
1930 - Powell Ranger District collection (lookout under construction)

1927:  16x16 shake cabin

1930:  A L-4 cabin was constructed atop six foot high log cribbing.

1961:  R-6 cab atop a 10-foot concrete base.
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HIGGINS HUMP

Clearwater National Forest  -  33N-6E-13
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HIGH SPRING

Nez Perce National Forest  -  33N-11E-23
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HIGHLINE

Nez Perce National Forest  -  31N-11E-18

1932:  35-foot platform tower with a two-story log cabin
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HORSE HEAVEN

National Forest  -  22N-2W-3

1929:  log cabin

1931:  30-foot pole tower with 7x7 cab

1950:  Destroyed
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HORSE POINT

Nez Perce National Forest  -  31N-9E-34

1938:  30-foot tower with L-4 cab.


1950:  Abandoned

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HORSEFLY POINT

National Forest  -  32N-14E-8

c.1938:  camp

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HOT POINT

Nez Perce National Forest  -  32N-7E-20

1933:  30-foot tower with L-4 cab.


1957:  Destroyed
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HOT SPRINGS POINT

Clearwater National Forest  -  36N-13E-9

1929:  cabin

1956:  Destroyed
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HUNGRY CREEK POINT

Payette National Forest  -  23N-13E-9

1935:  camp

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HUNGRY POINT

Clearwater National Forest
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IDAHO POINT

Clearwater National Forest  -  33N-8E-31

1930:  35-foot platform

1932:  L-4 cab on a log crib.


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1934:  The lookout was destroyed in the Pete King fire.

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INDIAN GRAVE

Clearwater National Forest  -  37N-10E-36

1981:  An L-4 cabin was constructed on a 50-foot tower in 1955 by the Lolo National Forest at a cost of $4234.00, this replaced an earlier structure (erected sometime prior to 1939).  For an unexplained reason the tower was transferred from the Powell District of the Lolo National Forest to the Lochsa District sometime after 1956.  In 1963 the Powell Ranger District was transferred to the Clearwater National Forest from the Lolo National Forest and the lookout was given back to the Powell District, near this time the tower was condemned and burned.  (Louis Hartig, 'Historic Facilities of the Lochsa Ranger District' - 1981)

INDIAN HILL

Nez Perce National Forest  -  31N-10E-29
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INDIAN POST OFFICE

Clearwater National Forest  -  37N-12E-19
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INDIAN RIDGE  (PETTIBONE)

Nez Perce National Forest  -  31N-14E-6
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IRON MOUNTAIN

Nez Perce National Forest  -  30N-7E-20
1919 - G.V. Ring photo,  U.S. Forest Service

1923:  log cabin


1942:  Abandoned
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JACK MOUNTAIN

Nez Perce National Forest  -  27N-9E-31

1931:  90-foot steel tower.


1953:  100-foot steel tower

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JAY POINT

Clearwater National Forest  -  36N-15E-5
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JEANETTE (PATROL LO)

Clearwater National Forest
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JERRY JOHNSON

Lolo > Clearwater National Forest     36N-12E-3
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JERSEY MOUNTAIN

Nez Perce National Forest  -  25N-7E-23

1931:  log cabin with cupola


1953:  41-foot treated timber tower with L-4 cab.

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1992:  Burned in wildfire.

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September 13, 1992:  "In reference to Sandra Lee's 'Up Front' in the Sept. 2 issue of the Lewiston Morning Tribune, the Jersey Mountain lookout cabin was built in 1934 by Howard Higgins, who later became ranger of the Dixie District on the Nez Perce National Forest.
     The lookout cabin sat well above the timberline on the rocky knoll of Jersey Mountain.  The tower was not constructed until the late 1950s because the trees began to grow up the slope of the mountain making the cabin and its lookout cupola ineffective.
     My husband, Dr. Fred Brown, was employed by the Dixie Ranger District during the summers of 1942, '46, '47, '48 and '49 on trail and telephone maintenance and as lookout on Jersey Mountain.  I joined him there for the summers of 1948 and '49 after we were married.  The road was built to the lookout in the spring of 1949.  Prior to that time supplies were packed in by pack string and water backpacked a little over a half mile from a spring south of the lookout.
     All of us who treasure memories of Jersey Mountain Lookout were saddened by the loss of this historic facility.   LOLITA BROWN"  (Lewiston Morning Tribune)
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JOHN DAY MOUNTAIN

Nez Perce National Forest  -  25N-2E-5
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JUNGLE POINT

Nez Perce National Forest  -  28N-3E-27

1930:  camp


1942:  Abandoned
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KELLY MOUNTAIN

Nez Perce National Forest  -  24N-3E-17

1930:  100-foot tree platform


1938:  40-foot pole tower with L-4 cab.


1958:  Destroyed

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LAKE CREEK POINT

Payette National Forest  -  26N-7E-27

1937:  camp


1942:  Abandoned

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LAKE CREEK POINT

Payette National Forest  -  23N-2E-18
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LANGDON POINT

Bitterroot National Forest  -  27N-14E-33

c.1940:  camp

c.1949:  Abandoned
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LEMHI POINT

Payette National Forest  -  24N-9E-7

1930's:  20-foot platform

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LICK CREEK POINT

Payette National Forest  -  30N-8E-9

1930's:  camp

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LITTLE BALDY

Nez Perce National Forest  -  30N-6E-15

c.1930:  30-foot tower with L-4 cab


1950:  Abandoned
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LIZ BUTTE

Clearwater National Forest  -  36N-9E-21
tower site - August 16, 2011 - Ron Kemnow photo
LQ - August 16, 2011 - Ron Kemnow photo
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LIZARD RIDGE

National Forest  -  33N-11E-5

1930's:  camp

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LOCHSA PEAK

Clearwater National Forest  -  34N-9E-4

1930:  A 65-foot tree crow's-nest was established.

1931:  A L-4 cab was erected atop a 8-foot high log crib.

1941:  The final year the lookout was staffed.

early 1950's:  Materials were salvaged and then the structure burned.

1981:  "In 1930, Russell Stadtman with two or three men built the last mile of trail to Lochsa Peak and then built a trail to a water supply for the lookout.  They cut the top out of a fir tree at 65' from the ground and built an open observatory at the top, complete with railing and mapboard.  Earnest Hartman and Harry Chenoweth soon moved in and with Stadtman's help built an L-4 cabin on an 8' high log understory.  The cabin like some others of that time had no catwalk around it making for the usual difficulty in raising and lowering shutters.  The point was manned each season from 1930 to 1941, then abandoned.  Material were salvaged and the lookout burned sometime in the early 1950's."  (Louis Hartig, 'Historic Facilities of the Lochsa Ranger District' - 1981)
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LODGE POINT

Nez Perce National Forest  -  32N-6E-14

1933:  20-foot tower with L-4 cab.

1950:  Abandoned

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LODGEPOLE HUMP

Bitterroot National Forest  -  27N-13E-7

1930's:  camp
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LOG RIDGE

Nez Perce National Forest  -  33N-12E-9

c.1928:  camp


1939:  Abandoned
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LOLO FORK

National Forest  -  35N-6E-10
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LONE KNOB

Clearwater National Forest  -  35N-9E-36

1930's:  camp

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LONE PINE

Nez Perce National Forest  -  32N-12E-30
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LONG LAKE RIDGE (PATROL LO)

Clearwater National Forest    
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LONG RIDGE

Nez Perce National Forest  -  31N-15E-9

1930's:  camp
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LOOKOUT BUTTE

Nez Perce National Forest  -  31N-6E-12
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