The purpose of these two sites were to provide a field training areas that resembled the geography and weather of the Korean Peninsula for the U.S. Air Force's Land Survival School located at Stead AFB, Nevada. Aircrew members would parachute into the site or otherwise be dropped off by helicopter or ground transport and "live off the land" and avoid capture until the end of the training exercise.
Documents and photographs on file at the Sacramento District, USACE indicated that the Site had a small camp with 13 simple wood frame structures. Research did not indicate if this camp was an administrative base camp or a "prison camp" for the prisoner resistance and escape portions of the training. No evidence was found during the course of research as to utilities infrastructure such as electrical service or water supply.
In 1966, the Land Survival School was moved to Fairchild AFB, Washington. Stead AFB and its field training areas were declared excess to the needs of the U.S. Air Force and the Site was returned to the USDA Forest Service.
