Original SMKJ Bases Data

                                                                        FIRST         ORIGINAL # 
REGION 1                LOCATION                       YEAR          OF JUMPERS         

Regional Base             Missoula, MT                      1940                       12   

Nezperce                    Grangeville, ID                    1951                                                
Forest Base

Gallatin Forest            West Yellowstone,               1951                        5                       
Base                               MT

REGION III

                                  Silver City, NM                1954                        18                      
(Detail from Missoula)

REGION IV

Payette Forest            McCall, ID                           1943                        5                       
Base

Boise Forest               Boise, ID                             1970                       26                      
Base (BLM)               (Idaho City, ID
1954-69)

REGION V

Regional Base             Redding, CA                       1957                        26                   
Northern California
Service Center

REGION VI

 

Siskiyou Base             Cave Junction, OR                1943                        11                  

Redmond Air Cntr       Redmond, OR                        1964                        23       

LaGrande Fire             LaGrande, OR                      1974                        20                  
Control Center

North Cascade             Winthrop, WA                      1940                         4                     
Smokejumper Base

Bureau of Land           Fairbanks, AK                       1959                        17                    
Management