NEVADA COUNTY
GROUSE RIDGE
Tahoe National Forest
18N-12E-34
18N-12E-34
September 30, 1915: "The officials of the Tahoe national forest have planned for another primary lookout, which will make seven in this forest, giving additional fire service. In order to find the best location Deputy Supervisor W.A. Merrill and Forest Examiner L.T. Larsen are making the trip up from Emigrant Gap.
More than likely the station will be placed at a location on Grouse Ridge or Fall Creek mountain. Banner mountain lookout catches the lower country, but does not reach into the upper Yuba headwater sections. Neither does the Buttes lookout catch this territory. So that it is expected that the trip of Merrill and Larsen today will result in the location of a primary lookout which will take care of the Upper Yuba country." (Truckee Republican)
More than likely the station will be placed at a location on Grouse Ridge or Fall Creek mountain. Banner mountain lookout catches the lower country, but does not reach into the upper Yuba headwater sections. Neither does the Buttes lookout catch this territory. So that it is expected that the trip of Merrill and Larsen today will result in the location of a primary lookout which will take care of the Upper Yuba country." (Truckee Republican)
July 20, 1925: "Mrs. Gertrude Bone, wife of Charles Bone, forest service lookout at the Grouse Ridge station, committed suicide at the Cisco ranger camp today, a few hours after arriving from San Dimas, Los Angeles county, to join her husband. She took her life by firing a bullet into her head from a small calibre automatic pistol. A note was found requesting that she be buried in the 'quiet mountains away from the restless city.' " (Nevada State Journal)
June 13, 1943: "District Ranger Warren E. Barnes of the Big Bend district of the Tahoe National forest recently ispected the damage caused to the Grouse Ridge lookout by last winter's storms, also the road, and states that it is still blocked by snow and down timber.
The lock will be removed from the gate June 22, but access through to the Grouse Ridge campground depends on the melting of heavy snowdrifts near the top of the peak, Barnes said." (Nevada State Journal)