STATELINE POINT
Placer County - Tahoe National Forest
1936: A lookout cabin constructed.
November 18, 1938: "One evening in August 1937 a tourist reported to Lookout Fireman Johnny Nelson, then on Stateline Point, Lake Tahoe, that he had accidentally hit a fawn on the highway near Brockway. Nelson picked up the fawn which seemed to have a badly injured neck and leg and took it to his station. Proposals were made that the fawn should be killed to end its misery as it gave promise of being a cripple or possibly not living at all. But Nelson decided to give it milk with the well known feeding bottle and it soon showed signs of improvement.
At the end of the fire season the fawn was a young and lively buck named "Duke", a pet of everyone. "Duke" grazed around the lookout point as he wished. His leg injury recovered but his neck injury caused him to carry his head tipped to one side. He was taken to the Galena Creek ERA Camp for the winter, and insisted on sleeping out in the snow throughout the record breaking storms of last February. The ERA workers decided "Duke" should be chief mascot of the camp so all the dogs and cats were banished by Project Superintendent Blair.
"Duke" inspected camp regularly, looking through the doors and windows, and even took the liberty, when allowed, of going into Camp Manager Heckman's house to eat the vegetable tops or anything else he could find to suit his taste in the kitchen. He was very fond of cigarette butts.
Although the injured neck caused his antler and eye to develop smaller on one side than they are on the other, "Duke" is otherwise a normal spike buck and just in case a hunter might have been shooting without looking to see if the antlers were forked, he was confined to the camp garage until the deer season closed in Washoe County, Nevada. The ERA men have broken him to lead with a rope on his antlers and he is taken for a daily walk and browsing on bitterbrush to keep him in good physical condition, -Snyder - Tahoe -" (California Ranger)
July 26, 1940: "Two forest service workers Wednesday extinguished a forest fire. believed to have been started by a carelessly thrown cigarette, near Kings Beach, Lake Tahoe, before it resulted in damage.
J. E. Cox, fire lookout at Stateline, and Forest Patrolman C. R. Arment extinguished the blaze, the twelfth in the Truckee region this year." (Nevada State Journal)
June 12, 1948: "Rex Levisee, Brockway lookout, reported a fire observed near Tahoe City in the mountain area in back of the Catholic Church, but extensive searching failed to reveal any smoke. It is believed the rain probably quenched the flames." (Nevada State Journal)
August 6, 1964: "A special award for 'superior performance' as a Forest Service fire lookout has been presented to Harold (Doc) Thornton, who is stationed in the tower on the California-Nevada boundary at Crystal Bay, high above Lake Tahoe.
Presentation of the $150 cash award was made by George Steed Truckee district ranger, at a dinner meeting of Forest Service employees Tuesday night.
A certificate accompanied the $150.
Thornton has served at the North Shore lookout tower during the last two summers. Prior to coming to Crystal Bay he had been employed as a Forest Service patrolman." (Nevada State Journal)
2002: The lookout was removed