ALSEA SUMMIT
Benton County - Siuslaw National Forest > Polk-Benton District, State Board of Forestry 13S-7W-2
August 7, 1937: "Two additional lookouts have been established, one atop Alsea mountain itself in charge of Richard Strating, and working under direction of R. S. Shelley, supervisor of the Siuslaw national forest." (Corvallis Gazette-Times)
November 15, 1938: "A lookout house on top of Alsea mountain will be built this winter, if suitable weather can be found to do the job. This house is needed, declare forest officials, to better protect the entire Mary's Peak area from forest fires during the summer season, and a lookout will be maintained each dry month." (Corvallis Gazette-Times)
December 8, 1938: "The forestry department is erecting a new lookout station on Alsea mountain." (Corvallis Gazette-Times)
September 10, 1939: "A crew of CCC enrollees from the Marys Riverside camp located near the summit of the Alsea mountain has begun construction of a road leading from the summit of the mountain westward to the lookout station." (The Sunday Oregonian)
September 18, 1940: "Construction of another fire lookout house in the Corvallis vicinity will be started shortly, Dahl Kirkpatrick, Siuslaw forest supervisor, announced here today.
The new station will be on Alsea summit, a short distance south of where the highway crosses the mountain, and will replace a tent now used by a lookout in the same location. The new construction will be atop a 10 foot tower with storage space beneath. CCC enrollees from Mary's Peak side camp will do the work." (Corvallis Gazette-Times)
July 3, 1941: "The new lookout towers on Alsea mountain and Pioneer Butte in the Peak area are being used for the first time, though lookouts were on duty there last year housed in tents." (Corvallis Gazette-Times)
May 2, 1946: "The newly organized Polk-Benton District of the State Board of Forestry will occupy and maintain under an agreement Forest Service protective improvements: Such as the Alsea Summit lookout station." (Corvallis Gazette-Times)
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