No, just the Watchman.
Now the Watchman, of course, we kept it up. We used it all the time. But Mount Scott we did not use, except as I recall, the first year I was here. But from then on it was just a place to go up and look around the country and to use in an emergency.
There is still two of that style of lookout on the Rogue River Forest. I got a chance this summer to look around one of them (12).
I think you will find no matter where you go within that era, you’ll find all the lookouts similar. If you were a lookout in one, you would go in another and close your eyes you’d find everything in it. You’d have no problem.
What about the lake level and water quality measurements?
We didn’t do anything like that at all. It was more sophistication than we had reached at that point in time. And I don’t think anybody ever even considered the fact that anything could hurt the water in that lake. That was sacred. Of course, acid rain wasn’t even thought of. Or anything likes that.
Were there any problems with point sources of pollution?
Not then, there wasn’t. Fishing was done a little bit in the lake. I think fish were planted probably one or two years during the period of time that I was here. But fishing was very poor in the lake. We had row boats on the lake in those days.
Were those run by the concession?
Yes.
Do you know how long that lasted?
The row boats I’m sure lasted all the time that I was here. When it stopped, I don’t recall. We generally did not allow motors on the lake. Now occasionally, somebody would sneak in and go down the Wineglass trail with a boat and a motor and we’d have reports of it. But I don’t recall they would catch anybody.
