(At the intersection of the Buttle Lake road and the John Hart Dam road, 4 miles west of Campbell River)

On a hot day in July 1938, an ominous smoke pillar near Gosling Lake signaled a forest fire which was to ravage 115 square miles of logged and timbered land.  Over 1500 firefighters battled grimly for weeks to save timber and communities.  Costs and damages were enormous.  Reforestation, intensified by the Forest Service, helped to heal the black scar.