Blackfoot Valley Dispatch - The Blackfoot Valley's News Source Since 1980

Authors' Note: This piece is excerpted from a report Clyde Fickes wrote in May 1944. It appeared in "Volume 1 – Early Days In The Forest Service." His words are excerpted with light editing. Fickes retired from the U.S. Forest Service in 1947. He died at age 103 on Dec. 29, 1987 – from an accident on the dance floor.

For a Ranger Station, no more isolated or lonesome spot could have been fo...