- City:
- Pine Valley, UT
- Site Type:
- Forestry and Agriculture, Infrastructure and Utilities, Federal Facilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Administrative Buildings, Fences
- New Deal Agencies:
- Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Conservation and Public Lands, Work Relief Programs, US Forest Service (USFS)
- Completed:
- 1935
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- Unknown
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
In 1935, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) constructed living quarters, roads, fences and a well at the Desert Experimental Range Station in Pine Valley UT. The station was established in 1933 by President Herbert Hoover, who set aside an 87-square-mile area of high desert in the Great Basin. The CCC improvements made the range station functional.
The Desert Experimental Range focuses on cold desert rangeland research. In 1976, it was designated a world biosphere reserve by UNESCO, the only cold desert reserve in the Western Hemisphere. It is administered by the US Forest Service.
Source notes
Gretchen Baker, Great Basin National Park: A Guide to the Park and Surrounding Area (Logan UT: Utah State University Press, 2012), 265.
https://www.fs.fed.us/rmrs/experimental-forests-and-ranges/desert-experimental-range
Site originally submitted by Richard A Walker on August 30, 2016.
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