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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Fire lookouts occupy an uncommon spot in the world. Their function is simultaneously ...

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.

KCRW Reports Line Fire destroys historic lookout tower in SoCal. Can they rebuild? The Line Fire has scorched The Keller Peak Fire Lookout Tower, which has been around for nearly 100 years, making it ...

This story was originally published by Writers on the Range. The writers Edward Abbey, Gary Snyder and Norman McLean all staffed high-elevation fire lookouts in the West—their experiences rich fuel ...

In California, firefighters have a true range of tools available to alert them of wildfires: live cameras mounted throughout forests, satellites orbiting Earth, pilots scanning the terrain in ...

The first Forestry Commission lookout tower was built in 1930 near Camden by the Civilian Conservation Corps. ⁠The tower network eventually included more than 130 towers and was used for 65 years to ...

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.