Baptiste participated in that project and a subsequent one, building a new deck for the lookout. John Hearing, a Forest Service volunteer and chair of the Snoqualmie Fire Lookouts Association who ...

to match the original building materials. Only two years after the labor of love was completed, the icon of fire lookout construction was incinerated in California’s single-largest wildfire to date.

Start-ups in Israel and Germany are building satellite-based ... He spoke of the pride he took in supporting fire managers, firefighters and his fellow lookouts, whom he helps train in mapping ...

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 ...

“So losing that lookout during that fire was very painful ... He has a background in building and so I started to run the idea by him and he met it with great enthusiasm.

There’s a small wooden cabin at the top of Northwest Peak, a few miles from Montana’s borders with Idaho and Canada, and Chuck Manning, 79, believes lookouts like this one deserve a second chance at ...

TROY, Mont. — Chuck Manning, 79, took careful steps as he circled a small wooden cabin at the top of Northwest Peak, an aptly named mountaintop a few miles from Montana’s borders with Idaho ...

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 — pa ...

Two historic, treasured fire lookouts have been destroyed in a blaze ... Many of them took a break inside or munched lunch in front of the building, which was listed on the National Register ...