LINCOLN COUNTY
ZEIGLER MOUNTAIN
Kootenai National Forest
33N-28W-31
33N-28W-31
August 29, 1919: "Zeigler mountain is located about 10 miles from Warland, which place is about 25 miles up the Kootenai river from Libby. It is situated in an advantageous part of the Kootenai forest on the west side of the Kootenai river and about 5,500 feet high.
For these reasons Zeigler mountain is one of the principal lookout stations in the forest. The forestry system maintains lookouts on this and other similar mountains throughout the forest. Their duty is to watch for fires and phone the information to headquarters as soon as one is located." (The Glasgow Courier)
For these reasons Zeigler mountain is one of the principal lookout stations in the forest. The forestry system maintains lookouts on this and other similar mountains throughout the forest. Their duty is to watch for fires and phone the information to headquarters as soon as one is located." (The Glasgow Courier)
September 4, 1919: "Zigler mountain is about 5,500 feet in height and because of its commanding position it has been selected as a lookout station by the forestry service and a tower has been erected which is reached by telephone, the station being occupied during such periods of the year when danger of forest fires exist. The mountain has a flat top of about 20 acres in area. Just over the break of the top and only a short distance down the side is located the spring. At any time those connected with the forestry service desire information as to the possibility of a storm they telephone to the lookout who takes a peep at the spring, which invariably has been a true barometer of approaching weather condition." (Fallon County Times)
July 9, 1956: "In the Warland district, Mr. and Mrs. Gus Salbador of College Station, Texas, are on Ziegler Mountain." (The Daily Inter Lake)
July 7, 1957: "Mr. and Mrs. Harold Belknap, who will be on Ziegler Mountain Lookout in the Warland district, arrived a week before school started. They wanted to become accustomed to life on a lookout before actual duties began.
Frank Bolles, one of the instructors, had spent the summer of 1929 on the Ziegler lookout. At that time he had lived and worked from a little old log cabin that is still standing. Conditions were not as convenient then as they are today in the towers. He had to climb up a ladder to get into the tower-like contraption when he went to look for fires." (The Daily Inter Lake)
1959: A 30-foot treated timber tower with a R-6 cab was constructed, replacing the earlier native timber tower with an L-4 cab