PRAIRIE REEF
Lewis and Clark County - Lewis and Clark National Forest - 21N-11W-9
July 9, 1931: "The Forest service is building a look out station at Prairie Reef. It is necessary to take materials to the reef by means of pack horses. When the station is completed Hector Hoyt will be lookout there." (The Augusta News)
August 15, 1940: "It's been hot down here but David Wilcox reports snow up at his lookout station on Prairie Reef and sent for his woolen undies." (The Augusta News)
August 16, 1984: "Rick Thompson, a Jamaican attending the University of Montana on a track scholarship, is a volunteer lookout this summer on Prairie Reef, 12 miles west of Gibson Dam.
The sophomore at UM this fall is majoring in geography and land inventory." (Sun Valley Sun)
DESIGNATION - PRAIRIE REEF LOOKOUT HOUSE
PID - ST0558
STATE/COUNTY- MT/LEWIS AND CLARK
COUNTRY - US
USGS QUAD - PRAIRIE REEF (1995)
STATION DESCRIPTION
DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1940 (ANS)
PRAIRIE REEF FOREST SERVICE LOOKOUT HOUSE IS IN THE LEWIS
AND CLARK NATIONAL FOREST ON THE HIGHEST POINT OF A BARE TOP
MOUNTAIN, 5 MILES NW OF PRETTY PRAIRIE GUARD STATION, 7-1/2
MILES WSW OF ALLEN DUDE RANCH AND 5-1/2 MILES E OF THE
CONTINENTAL DIVIDE WHICH IS THE LEWIS AND CLARK-FLATHEAD
NATIONAL FOREST BOUNDARY. THE CENTER OF THE HOUSE WAS
INTERSECTED.