Traveling across Highway 44, the Pine Creek Valley appears to be a desolate wind swept sagebrush flat, surrounded by pine trees. After all, the majority of human activity is concentrated at the Bogard Rest Station. By the way the area is named for John Jasper Bogard, a Tehama County stockman, who in the mid-1870s started using the area for summer grazing of sheep. Actually, the region was home to many sheep outfits, such as Champs, Cone, McCoy and Stanford, the latter as in Stanford University. These sheep outfits had a huge impact on western Lassen County, and so many of the natural features were named for them.
In 1928, the Fruit Growers Supply Company established their largest and longest operated logging camp, Camp 10, at the northern edge of Pine Creek Valley. During the summer months it became one of the larger communities of Lassen County. Today, there are some remnants left at Camp 10, but not much. After all it closed after the 1952 logging season.