April and May, forest fire wardens and local fire companies become busy with brush fires and larger forest fires. This springtime danger comes when bright sun, strong winds and warming temperatures ...

We’re often asked why we staff a fire lookout. Our reasons aren ... manmade distractions disappear. Our tower has been visited by horned lizards, elk, mountain lions and a mama bear with ...

This 1930s film highlights the lives of Ontario forest rangers and their crucial work in fire prevention and ... of both wooden and steel lookout towers, emphasizing the physical and technical ...

Last week I hiked St. Regis Mountain in a short sleeved shirt ... Here you are rewarded with a great 35 foot fire tower. The steel tower was built in 1918. It was so nice to see that it was open to ...

The mountain is blowing its top ... In July of 1919, Gladys says, “the lure of silent places” drew her into a summer job as a fire-tower lookout in the mountains of the Colville Forest in western ...

This one has a few side quest trails that may interest you; both the Lower Lookout and the Upper Lookout trail have ... pull-off on Forest Service Road 450 and leads to a historic fire tower. Now, ...

Forget crowded beaches and overpriced resorts – the ultimate spring break adventure is hiding in eastern Oklahoma’s Ouachita ...

Idyllwild is one of my all-time favorite California mountain towns. It’s not as well known as ... The trail takes you to a lookout tower in the high country wilderness with incredible views of the ...

A Spinnanker crew did onsite tests, threading steel rods into a circular base, similar to ones used in the lookout tower’s foundation. The basis of the foundation system uses a circular steel ...

The Lookout Mountain, Ga. police department is now fully ... Taylor Watson, the council liaison with the fire and police department, said the city owes Officer Barrett “a massive amount of ...