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Sulphur Works

In September 1865, the Red Bluff Independent reported that T. M. Boardman and some partners had made arrangements with Dr. Mathias B. Supan of Red Bluff to develop one of these sulphur deposits into a working mine. Supan, a medical ...

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Dream Lake

With the property now in Sifford’s control, the family planned to operate the ranch as a tourist resort, providing camping spots along Hot Springs Creek where Drake had rented campsites, a limited number of rooms (in Drake’s house), meals, mineral ...

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Warner Valley

As early as the 1860s, sheep and cattle ranching operations along with dairy farming became prominent enterprises in the local economy. Ranchers used the grasslands in the high meadows on the north and east sides of Lassen Peak, near Battle ...

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Drakesbad Guest Ranch

In June of 1938, after removing the original lodge built by Edward Drake in 1890 and crushed in the winter snows of 1937-38, the Siffords began the construction of a replacement building. Roy Sifford, who was determined to lose as ...

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Drakesbad

The first person known to have settled in the valley that was later to become Drakesbad was Edward R. Drake (1830-1904). It is possible that Drake may have first arrived in the Drakesbad area as early as 1875. Records show ...

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Peter Lassen

Lassen Peak was named for Peter Lassen, one of the first white settlers in the northern Sacramento Valley and the discoverer of a route through the mountains called the Lassen Trail. In the decade and a half that Peter Lassen ...

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California Spotted Owl

The California spotted owl is one of three subspecies of spotted owls that occurs within the United States. The Mexican spotted owl is found in the southwestern states and Mexico. The Northern spotted owl occupies western Washington, Oregon and California. ...

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Peregrine Falcon

The American Peregrine Falcon, once a common resident throughout much of California, began rapidly declining about the mid-part of the 20thcentury. The chief factor responsible for this ...

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Native Cultures

The present area of the park historically fell within the customary use areas of four Indian tribes. The Atsugewi lived north and east of Lassen Peak in the Hat Creek drainage and around Eagle Lake. The ...

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Bluff Fire

Wildland fire has long been recognized as one of the most significant natural processes operating within and shaping the northern Sierra Nevada and southern Cascade Mountain ecosystems. Virtually all vegetation communities here show evidence of fire ...

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