Los Burros Ranger Station
Forest Rd. 20, McNary, AZThe Los Burros Ranger Station, built in 1910, is significant as the oldest of the extant Forest Service structures on the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests. Other National Forests in Arizona may have structures of similar age and function, but Los Burros appears to be the sole survivor in terms of mode of construction. While architecturally unexceptional, the quarters and barn are typical of the facilities used at the beginning of active management of forested, public lands in the western United States. The Station's rural setting evokes the management situation of the time, initially the need to protect the timber resource from wildfire and later to administer the controlled harvesting of that resource. The Los Burros Ranger Station meets the National Register criteria for its historic association with the inception of Federal policy for the conservation of the nation's timber and watershed resources, and, less generally, with the establishment of the Sitgreaves National Forest.
Local significance of the building:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
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