IDAHO COUNTY
STODDARD CREEK POINT
Salmon National Forest
22N-14E-28
22N-14E-28
June 13, 1934: "Radio receiving and sending unit has been installed at Stoddard Creek." (Recorder Herald)
September 11, 1935: "M.M. McNicoll left this week for Stoddard peak where he will assist in constructing a lookout station." (Recorder Herald)
July 13, 1950: "High frequency radios have been installed at lookouts. Ranger Hyatt and Fire Chief Leonard are making installations this week at Stoddard and West Horse lookouts." (Recorder Herald)
July 13, 1950: "High frequency radios have been installed at lookouts. Ranger Hyatt and Fire Chief Leonard are making installations this week at Stoddard and West Horse lookouts." (Recorder Herald)
July 12, 1951: "Bob Smith of Caldwell, is going up the last of this week to take the Stoddard Mountain post." (The Recorder-Herald)
July 12, 1951: "Bob Smith of Caldwell has taken the Stoddard Mountain lookout post for the summer, and will leave shortly to assume his duties at the station there. Bob, a brother of Rev. Donald Smith of Salmon, has been spending the summer visiting his brother here and has many friends in this city.
Smith is a student at the College of Idaho at Caldwell, where he is studying for the ministry." (The Recorder Herald)
September 8, 1960: "But for the watchfulness of George McDonald who mans the Stoddard lookout in the Middle Fork drainage of the Salmon river, a major fire could have been started by careless hunters.
The party of four sheep hunters, McDonald said, had apparently floated down the Middle Fork from Flying B ranch, where they had been flown by airplane. They were hunting along the way and had made a camp near Pappoose ridge when they were observed by the lookout.
When the hunters broke camp they left their fire going. Noticing this careless incident, McDonald hiked to the campsite and extinguished the fire. He said that an area around the fire had been cleared but that a gust of wind could easily have started a bad fire in that area.
The hunters were not cited for their actions but would have been in line for prosecution and heavy fine if a fire had resulted." (The Recorder Herald)
August 20, 1964: "Lightning hit the Stoddard Lookout but the structure was not damaged." (The Recorder Herald)