 The site was also used at one time by the Department of the Army, Signal Corps, to support the Signal Corps Radio Station WVY.The late 1960s and early 1970s saw Native American groups 'occupying' federal lands (Alcatraz Island is the best-known Northern California example) as a form of protest, and the US Army high frequency transmit and control site near Davis was no exception.Conveniently for all parties, the US Army radio transmitter & control site mostly deactivated and operating in a caretaker status, as part of an military-wide reorganization of high frequency radio facilities (similar high-power Army HF radio stations in Kansas and the Washington DC area also had shut-down), so while the occupation may have provided a slight nuisance, the Army chose not to attempt to forcibly repel the occupiers, like they certainly would have been obligated to if the site was still performing an important mission and with
expensive, classified materials stored on-site.