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Didn't know there were still some Lookouts maned ...

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/15/74954703 ... ket-newtab

I remember seeing want adds for employment as a watchman in fire towers in Pennsylvania in the 1970's. I don't know what has become of them. Scramblingbadger has a little note about one in the Black Hills.
https://www.summitpost.org/touring-a-bl ... wer/873343

The one at Zenobia Peak in Colorado is still manned.

Tons of lookouts in Wa. excellent article.thanks for sharing!

Just amusing myself on a chilly PNW morning... but miscellaneous reads follow here...

https://www.firelookout.org/worldwide-l ... brary.html
https://www.trailchick.com/wa-state-fire-lookouts/
http://nhlr.org/lookouts/us/wa/

Pennsylvania has recently built 16 more.

https://wildfiretoday.com/2019/05/10/pe ... ut-towers/

Woodswalker wrote:Pennsylvania has recently built 16 more.
https://wildfiretoday.com/2019/05/10/pe ... ut-towers/

I'm just going off of the one photo there, but is a chain-link and barbed wire enclosure really necessary?

T. White wrote:

Woodswalker wrote:Pennsylvania has recently built 16 more.
https://wildfiretoday.com/2019/05/10/pe ... ut-towers/

I'm just going off of the one photo there, but is a chain-link and barbed wire enclosure really necessary?

Keeps out drunk assholes.