US Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento
District History (2006)
On 10 March 1953, Pacific Lumber Company
(PALCO) granted a Right of Entry Permit to the US Army Corps
of Engineers (USACE), who was acting on behalf of the U.S. Air
Force, to evaluate Mount Pierce in Humboldt County as a location
for a radio relay site. On 21 April 1953, the USACE entered into
a lease agreement with PALCO for approximately 0.129 acre site
on top of Mount Pierce. This lease was a year to year agreement
not to exceed past 30 June 1963. Soon after acquiring the parcel
of land, the U.S. Air Force established an unmanned radio relay
annex. The Site was under the control of Hamilton AFB.
Constructed upon the site was a single
concrete block building which housed the radio relay equipment
and emergency backup generator, an above ground fuel storage
tank (AST) for the emergency backup generator, and two wooden
poles which antennas were mounted to. By 1960, the need for this
annex by the government no longer existed and the property was
returned to the control of its owner, PALCO who continues to
use this facility as a communication station for company timber
operations. Under provisions of Supplement Agreement 1 to lease
DA-04-203-ENG-3075, PALCO remitted to the United States Government
$100.00 for the improvements made to the Site in lieu of removal
and restoration.
In 1960, the 0.13 lease acre was terminated
and PALCO took title to the improvements. The Site is currently
being used by PALCO as a communications station.
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