RIVERSIDE COUNTY
SANTA ROSA PEAK
San Bernardino National Forest
T7S-R5E-27
T7S-R5E-27
June 26, 1930: "Appearing before the board of supervisors, the residents announced they have collected $210 by popular subscription among the ranchers to go toward paying for a ranger to be located in the Santa Rosa mountain district during the present fire period.
'The Santa Rosa mountain,' they told the supervisors, 'is the one nearest and most accessible to the people of the Coachella valley. So we feel a great interest in its protection from fires. It would be a tragedy if fire destroyed the trees and shrubbery on the mountain since the mountain-to-desert highway will go within a short distance of the peak.
The supervisors suggested that the resident work out with the federal department some plan for the establishing of a fire patrol or other protective system on the mountain and report back the approximate outlay." (Corona Daily Independent)
'The Santa Rosa mountain,' they told the supervisors, 'is the one nearest and most accessible to the people of the Coachella valley. So we feel a great interest in its protection from fires. It would be a tragedy if fire destroyed the trees and shrubbery on the mountain since the mountain-to-desert highway will go within a short distance of the peak.
The supervisors suggested that the resident work out with the federal department some plan for the establishing of a fire patrol or other protective system on the mountain and report back the approximate outlay." (Corona Daily Independent)
September 22, 1964: "The lookout tower is about 40 feet high and from it you can see a hundred miles in every direction. It was a hazy day, both out over the desert and in toward Los Angeles, but even so the view was magnificent... from the top of the rustic old log lookout tower in the top of a Jeffrey pine that Desert Steve Ragsdale had built many years ago." (Star-News)