1950 Map of Bucks Lake

About this map

Bucks Lake and the high Sierra Nevada timberlands of the Plumas National Forest define this mid-century topographic survey. The landscape is a network of mid-elevation water bodies including Lower Bucks Lake, Silver Lake, and Three Lakes, all feeding into the complex drainage of Spanish Creek and the Middle Fork Feather River. The map captures a transition in local land use, where established mountain ranching at Spanish Ranch and Faggs Ranch exists alongside the developing recreation and administrative infrastructure of the Bucks Lake Guard Station and Bucks Lodge.