Many years ago this would be the job of a fire lookout who would sit in fire towers and watch the surrounding area to report fires and weather changes. Fire towers, also known as lookout towers ...

“My job basically is to sit in the fire tower and look over the landscape ... That can be the inside of my minivan, it can be the inside of the fire lookout for four months,” she said.

HINTON, ALTA.—A valley of trees, an old railroad, and peaceful mountain ranges splay out for hikers who summit the tranquil William Switzer Fire Tower Trail near Hinton. But pieces of an old ...

“Nobody thought Harkness would go,” Ash Phillips told me plainly. The Mount Harkness Fire Lookout tower was, after all, built atop a sparsely vegetated peak of an ancient cinder cone volcano ...

Washington was once home to hundreds of fire lookouts — great towers that would stand above ... can hike up to the lookout but cannot hang out inside. If there is someone on duty, they may ...

Fire lookout towers still stand vigilant today ... It's not about what's inside, but what's outside. Sound appealing? Check out these seven National Forest Service-maintained fire lookouts ...

The Forest Service began building fire-detection towers after the Great Fire of 1910, then added more after the Civilian Conservation Corps and other government agencies considered lookouts ...

Fire towers will be illuminated to honor those who once worked inside them. After a series ... National Forest Fire Lookout Association New York state chapter Director Laurie Rankin says the ...

North Carolina lookout towers are no longer used for fire detection, except in the case of high fire danger, according to the U.S. Forest Service. At one point, 98 fire lookout towers had been ...

Idaho was once home to nearly 1,000 fire lookouts — great towers that would stand above the trees, offering 360-degree views of the surrounding wilderness. The towers were used by spotters ...