This year marks Brig Malessa’s fourth season as a fire lookout for the ... This year’s lookout cabin, located several hours east of Bend, Oregon, is about 14 feet by 14 feet and sits atop ...

For him, the lookout tower had personal memories ... sunset from the Bolan lookout in southern Oregon before the structure burned in the Slater Fire in 2020.

I went on a camping trip in New Mexico in 2019 and basically just stumbled upon a fire tower ... will get one lookout and stay there for decades. This year, I'm in central Oregon.

(KATU) — It’s been a record-setting fire season in Oregon ... our alert cameras that we have throughout Oregon and Washington, as well as our lookout towers and reconnaissance, we are doing ...

If, on a hot, dry day a fire ... around the lookout post. At bottom right, Mr. Haugen takes a bearing using an alidade. Today the service staffs just 71 lookouts in Washington and Oregon; 59 ...

Oregon Butte Lookout ... While exploring Washington’s high peaks and enjoying the views of the fire lookout towers, you may spot what the towers were initially designed to find: smoke.

Why did the towers–and their ever-vigilant occupants—lose their fire-spotting role? Mark Hufstetler is an architectural historian who works for the Forest Service as a fire lookout at Baptiste ...