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| Hiking | 0.68 Miles |
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| | Hiking | 0.68 Miles | 1 Hour 20 Mns | | 0.62 mph |
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| partners | | This was our second hike of the day, another short one to checkout Buckaroo Flats and a viewpoint from the SE end of the Flats overlooking the historic JR Ranch. Access to Buckaroo Flats is from FR236 from FR609. Arriving at Buckaroo Flats we were surprised to see large piles of old dead trees scattered across the Flats - kind of an eyesore. It appears that a tree clearing project probably started by the Forest Service to open more area for grazing hadn't yet reached the stage where they burn up all the piles of dead trees. A yellow bulldozer parked near FR236 contributed to that theory. However after arriving back home I checked out historical Google Earth images and discovered that this tree clearing project had started some time around June 2012 and appeared to have reached its current state by Jan 2014. The yellow bulldozer shows up in the Jan 2014 GE image parked in the same location where we saw it and stays in that spot through 4 subsequent images in 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2020. It appears to have been abandoned when the project was stopped sometime between 2012 and 2014. Perhaps in 700 years archeologists will find it and wonder what we ancients were up to.
I've been curious about the JR Ranch since first seeing it in the distance from Redmond Mesa 2 years ago. Since then I did some historical research but couldn't find much info on it. [ J R Ranch - Copper Mtn 7.5 Topo ] The viewpoint on the SE end of Buckaroo Flats gave us a closer look at it. It appears to be occupied at least part time with a US Flag on a flagpole in front of the ranch house and an old pickup truck parked out in front which has been moved between April 2019 and this visit in Mar 2021. There's also what appears to be a TV satellite dish antenna on the roof which was also there in 2019. So someone must have lived there long enough at least sometime before 2019 to justify putting in the dish antenna and presumably a generator to power the system. It doesn't appear to be an active cattle ranch - the corral doesn't appear to have been used recently. There are no horses or ATVs at the ranch even though there are so many cattle roaming Redmond Mesa that GH and I have renamed it Cowpie Mesa. So the mystery continues and I suspect it has history going back to the Pleasant Valley War. |
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