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Show OMS No. 10024-001 8 NPS Foro 10-900-. Utah WordPerfect 5.1 Fonnat (Revised Feb. 1993) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section No. JL Page ~ Stockmore Ranger Station, Tabiona area, Duchesne County, UT discovered in Stockmore is not mentioned. Although the ranger station and buildings were not constructed until well after the town's demise, they are the only reminders that it ever existed. The administrative site where the Stockmore ranger station is located was withdrawn from the Uinta and Ouray Indian Reservation and approved to receive a ranger station in 1908, the year that the Ashley National Forest was established. 3 The site was immediately claimed for settlement by a mixed-blood Indian. During this period, half-breeds were terminated from Ute Indian Tribal roles. The Department of the Interior did not intercede and the site was sold to Lawrence A. Pike, although he did not actually receive a patent until July 31, 1961. The ranger station was still constructed although the Forest Service did not receive the land until after October 2, 1962, when the land was condemned. After problems arose through back taxes and the condemnation notice through Duchesne County, the title was cleared and quitclaim-deeded to the Forest Service. 4 Ranger and guard stations were used as work and living centers for forest crews who managed and presided over Forest Service lands. They were built mainly as a convenience before the automobile became common transportation because the Forest Service lands and work areas were so far from the personnel's homes. The buildings and sites were also used as social centers for other people such as sheep herders and miners who worked in the vicinity. By approximately the 1950s, a majority of the ranger stations were being located in urban settings for convenience as the Forest Service went to a more centralized administrative plan, although some of the ranger and guard stations were, and still are used for seasonal management of the forests. Forest Service administrative sites fell into two categories, ranger stations and guard stations, although the application of the terms has blurred somewhat over the years. Basically, ranger stations were larger than guard stations 5 and were used as a year-'round base for the Ranger, his staff, and oftentimes his family. Buildings on a ranger station site might include a dwelling, an office (these two might be combined in the same building as in this case), a warehouse, and other buildings used for maintenance and storage of animals and vehicles. The large ranger complexes demonstrated administrative complexity and implied permanence on the site. Guard stations, on the other hand, housed from two to four crew members who came from various parts of the state and country, and were placed in remote areas of the forest where the crews worked during the summer. Since they were used for just a portion of the year, guard station sites met basic requirements, usually only consisting of a bunk house, garage or barn, and perhaps a :trhe Ashley National Forest was originally a part of the Uinta National Forest, which was the first and largest national forest reserve in the state. Because better management was required in this section of the state, a separate forest was created in 1908. "This information was taken from a site inventory memo date December 6, 1976, written by the District Forest Ranger, Alma Joel Frandsen, and also from a memo to "Attomey in Charge, DL", from J.M. Herbert, Assistant Regional Forester, dated May 9. 1967. 5Although in some cases a guard station on one forest could be larger than a ranger station on neighboring forest. According to Charmaine Thompson, Uinta Forest ArchaeoloQist, one document listed the area of a "ranger house" to be 1200 sq. ft., while the area of a guard station was to be approximately 900 sq. ft. See continuation sheet |
