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 ...

Fire lookout structures were once as much a part of the Western landscape as the forests they watched over. Prompted by the massive wildland fires of 1910 in Montana and Idaho, the Forest Service ...

BUTTE MEADOWS — A petition to ask the U.S. Forest Service to save the Colby Mountain Fire Lookout was among the ideas coming from a community meeting Saturday in this mountain town. About 30 people, ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The Forest Service is starting a months-long reconstruction of a decades-old forest fire lookout tower that overlooks Flagstaff. Coconino National Forest officials say the work ...

The Sierra Buttes Fire Lookout is not just a historic wildfire tower but also a challenging adventure destination in Tahoe ...

PRICHARD, Idaho – The roof on the Little Guard Lookout leaked. The windows wouldn’t open. The outriggers, which hold up the heavy wooden shutters all summer, were splintering. Paint, siding, flooring ...

WEST FORK – Mark Rhodes has some very simple advice for the rookies preparing to spend their first summer in a lookout tower on the Bitterroot National Forest. Before they make that report on the ...