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A USFS Fire Lookout using an Osborne Firefinder while on duty at Vetter Mountain, California. The device is used by moving the sights until the observer can peek through the nearer sighting hole and view the cross hairs in the further sight aligned with the fire. The fire lookout notes the degrees on the graduated ring beneath the sight. Early ...
There once were more than 10,000 fire lookout persons [1] staffing more than 5,000 of fire lookout towers or fire lookout stations in the United States alone. [2] Now there are far fewer of both. Also there are a number of fire lookout trees. The U.S. state of Wisconsin decided to close its last 72 operating fire lookout towers in 2016. [3]
Jackie Jones Mountain is a 1,253-foot-tall (382 m) mountain in the state of New York.It is located west of Stony Point in Rockland County.In 1928, a 60-foot-tall (18 m) steel fire lookout tower was built on the mountain.
The Shuteye Peak Lookout tower. Shuteye Lookout was established by the U.S. Forest Service in 1907. The lookout was the first of its kind in the Sierra. Daily hikes to the summit were required before a permanent structure was built in 1909. [7] The availability of a permanent fire lookout station replaced the earlier practice of constant fire ...
Vetter Mountain is the site of historic Vetter Mountain fire lookout tower, a ground mounted BC-3 type cab. The lookout tower was built in 1937 and remained in service until 1981. Ramona Merwin, a USFS fire lookout staffed the tower from 1953 until its closing. The tower was slated to be moved to the Chilao Visitors Center, but a group of ...
The following year, forest rangers built the first Hunter Mountain fire tower, a 40-foot (12.2 m) structure made from three trees, on level ground near the summit. It was one of the first fire lookout towers in the Catskills. Observers stood on an open platform and at first had to live in a nearby tent, until a cabin was built. [1]
The fire tower is a 60 feet (18 m) Pacific Coast Steel tower built in 1935. It replaced a 41 feet (12 m) wooden tower. The tower has a 7 feet (2.1 m) by 7 feet (2.1 m) wooden cab with an overhanging front porch and a gable roof. [3] [4] It was listed on the National Register along with 41 other fire lookout towers in a batch in 1988. [3]
The first fire lookout structure built on the mountain was a wooden tower that was built by the Conservation Commission in 1912. In 1917, the Conservation Commission replaced it with a 47-foot-tall (14 m) steel Aermotor LS40 tower. The tower was ceased fire lookout operations at the end of the 1971 season. [3]