IDAHO COUNTY
WOUNDED DOE RIDGE
Clearwater National Forest
34N-11E-12
34N-11E-12
1981: "This point was manned for the first time in 1923 when Ranger Ralph Hand set in a tent camp with Jess Mosher holding down the lookout position. Communication with the lookout was established by stringing emergency wire to the Fish Lake-McConnell Mtn. telephone line by the shortest route. It was to be fifteen years before the place was again manned. In the meantime it had been set up in the Lochsa District fire plan as an emergency lookout.
It was 1939 when Ranger Hans Roeffler manned Wounded Doe Ridge by setting up a tent camp with Keith McGee as lookout. This time communication was supposed to be by SPF radio, but due to malfunctions and static electricity interference, it didn't work out to well. McGee and Daland Broker, who was on Rhoda Point, arranged mirror flash signals to communicate after a fashion. The point was never manned again after 1939 and was eventually dropped from the fire plan." (Louis Hartig, 'Historic Facilities of the Lochsa Ranger District' - 1981)
It was 1939 when Ranger Hans Roeffler manned Wounded Doe Ridge by setting up a tent camp with Keith McGee as lookout. This time communication was supposed to be by SPF radio, but due to malfunctions and static electricity interference, it didn't work out to well. McGee and Daland Broker, who was on Rhoda Point, arranged mirror flash signals to communicate after a fashion. The point was never manned again after 1939 and was eventually dropped from the fire plan." (Louis Hartig, 'Historic Facilities of the Lochsa Ranger District' - 1981)