GREENVILLE

 This morning on the news I see most of the small town of Greenville burned down from the Dixie Fire in northern California.   Somewhere in this blog there is a story of my career with the Forest Service from 1977 to 79, when I worked on the Greenville Ranger District of the Plumas National Forest.    The ranger station office was in the center of town and the work center station was on the south end of town.    Some time in the 1980's the Greenville District was combined with the Quincy District and the office in Greenville was closed.   My first wife and I, along with our two young children lived in a rented ranch house seven miles out of Greenville on the eastside of Indian Valley.   

There are before the fire pictures and after the fire pictures of the center of Greenville.    From what I remember looking at the before pictures, the town had not changed much.    It had a population of 800, mostly merchants, ranchers, and retired folks.   The two Louisiana Pacific lumber mills closed down in the 1980's and much of the logging subsided after that.   It is all gone now, except the memories.