SHASTA COUNTY
BEAR MOUNTAIN (SHASTA)
Shasta National Forest > California Department of Forestry
August 27, 1933: "Delbert Bangs of McCloud and a crew from the Slagger C.C.C. camp are constructing on 18 feet tower and lookout house on Bear mountain, near Bartle." (The Searchlight)
December 9, 1936: "State Forester M. B. Pratt was advised Tuesday by Forest Ranger Lester Gum of Shasta county the last of the lookouts maintained by the state in the county was ordered off duty for the year yesterday.
The lookout had been situated on Shasta Bear, a high peak. Gum told Pratt there had been no 'soaking' rains in the county but he thought it safe to dispense with the lookout because there are main CCC enrollees available if a fire should break out on the forest." (The Searchlight)
August 1, 1939: "The Dry creek fire swept over the top of Bear mountain Saturday, but the lookout station there was saved by a state forest service suppression crew." (The Searchlight)
1976: The new California Department of Forestry design lookout was constructed. Most of the lumber used in the construction was cut by men from the Intermountain Conservation Camp near Bieber and a great deal of the metal fabrication was done by inmates at the Deadwood Conservation Camp near Fort Jones.