Firefighters have been responding to several smoke reports around the Ninemile Ranger District on the Lolo National Forest.

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The Dixie Fire has claimed a historic fire lookout in Lassen Volcanic National Park, the park's superintendent reported Saturday night. The Mount Harkness Lookout is the park's first loss from the ...

The writers Edward Abbey, Gary Snyder and Norman McLean all staffed high-elevation fire lookouts in the West—their experiences rich fuel for their work. But Jack Kerouac’s reaction makes me smile.

The fire lookout sits at about 7,700 feet above sea level and seems to be in good condition despite being abandoned since 1955, when the Forest Service last staffed the outpost.

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 ...

As of 3:41 p.m., the fire had spread across 20 acres, the forest service said. The Tuolumne County Sheriff's Office said no structures were threatened by the fire and no evacuations have been issued.

According to the National Historic Lookout Register, Northwest Peak Lookout was constructed as a prototype of a gable-roofed style lookout. Unlike the Forest Service’s more-recognizable models ...

Then at 8:20 a.m., a trail sign declared that the lookout was only a half mile away, so we had plenty of time to reach the staircase after all, which meant that of course my book was right about ...

A plaque at the bottom of that staircase “honors the five Tahoe National Forest employees who, with great difficulty, made it possible for visitors to climb to this lookout with ease and safety,” ...

A nearly 100-year-old fire lookout tower was destroyed last week as the Line Fire blazed through Southern California. Los Angeles ABC affiliate KABC reported that the Keller Peak fire lookout ...