While the photograph does not look like much, what it depicts is the initial stages of construction work of the inlet of the Bly Tunnel at Eagle Lake. It would be another year, before major work on the tunnel was started from the lakeside.

In 1962, Lassen County received some BLM land just north of Bly Tunnel. Thus, was the humble beginning of the Lassen County Youth Camp, though it take years to construct the facilities, a lot done by donations and volunteer labor.

In 1964, the Eagle Lake Biological Field Station of California State University, Chico relocated on BLM property between the Lassen County Youth Camp and the Bly Tunnel.

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