BUTTE MEADOWS — A petition to ask the U.S. Forest Service to save the Colby Mountain Fire Lookout was among the ideas coming from a community meeting Saturday in this mountain town. About 30 people, ...
Northwest Peak Lookout sits at the top of Northwest Peak in Lincoln County. (Hailey Smalley/ Daily Inter Lake) Volunteers make repairs to Northwest Peak Lookout on July 25, 2025. (Hailey Smalley/Daily ...
The U.S. Forest Service will staff Colby Mountain Lookout in Lassen National Forest for the 2026 fire season, enhancing fire ...
PRICHARD, Idaho – The roof on the Little Guard Lookout leaked. The windows wouldn’t open. The outriggers, which hold up the heavy wooden shutters all summer, were splintering. Paint, siding, flooring ...
With mountaintop settings, serene isolation and an expansive view, fire lookouts in the Willamette National Forest have plenty to offer. As new methods for spotting fires have evolved over the last ...
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It sat empty in the California forest for over a decade. Now this watchtower is active again
In a rare turn of events, a 60-year-old wildfire watchtower in the mountains east of Yosemite National Park that had been decommissioned more than a decade ago was revived this summer, with lookouts ...
Editor’s note: The following is a letter written by Gary McHargue, a retired Forest Service employee of 31 years. McHargue was the person who hired Ken Jordan as lookout at the Colby Mountain Lookout ...
ATOP LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest — This summit face was the coldest part of the mountain, shaded in thick old-growth forest. But nearly two years ago — after a roasting-hot run ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 10—At first glance, Northwest Peak Lookout is not much to look at. Nearly a century of solitary confinement at 7,700 feet of ...
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