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Black Mountain and nearby Big Spruce Mountain were named for the giant spruce trees that once darkened their slopes. In the early 1900’s, loggers from eight camps in this valley hauled valuable spruce on narrow gauge railroads, leaving a cutover landscape of dry spruce limbs and needles. In 1930, probably set by train cinders, this tinderbox burst into flame and turned the beautiful valley into a black and barren wasteland.
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