The new lookout will be rebuilt with updated engineering specs to modern code, including steel structural support, a metal roof, and fire resistant materials. Its wood-clad interior and cedar ...

Mona Campground, Lookout Campground ... There have been a few visible smokes in the fire interior as it creeps and smolders in old growth forest. Crews continue to monitor the fire and ensure ...

“So losing that lookout during that fire was very painful ... it just comes to life. The interior of this building are all clear cedar. It just brings the thing to life.

The remote fire lookout, situated roughly 7,700 feet above sea level ... Northwest Montana Lookout Association representatives Peters Kitts and Chuck Manning inspect the bare interior of Northwest ...

(KTVZ) -- The Lookout Fire on the Willamette National ... Minimal fire activity remains in the interior of the fire area. Crews cleaned up pockets of unburned vegetation on the northwest edge ...

KLAMATH RIVER -- A woman who manned lookout towers ... said incident fire behavior analyst Dennis Burns. "We had some very large islands [of unburned forest] within the interior and they went ...

The interior is sparse and immaculately clean. The district ranger said it takes a special breed to be a fire lookout. “You have to enjoy time alone," said Quinn. " You have to have good ...

“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 ...

Officials say the future of wildfire detection is cameras. But in northwest Montana, solitary humans on mountaintops still do more than machines alone can offer. Leif Haugen with his morning ...

Two historic, treasured fire lookouts have been destroyed in a blaze of irony - burned by wildfires like the ones they were built to detect. Flames of the Horseshoe 2 Fire consumed the Barfoot ...

The remote fire lookout, situated roughly 7,700 feet above sea level, appeared to be in relatively good condition, despite being abandoned since 1955 when the Forest Service last staffed the outpost.