Don Allen has saved some of the last historic lookout towers in Oregon, but he couldn’t save the one that meant the most to his father. Don Allen III got a text that struck him with dread. “Looks like ...

Washington was once home to hundreds of fire lookouts – great towers that would stand above the trees, offering 360-degree views of the surrounding wilderness. The towers were used by spotters, who ...

BUTTE MEADOWS — More than half of Ken Jordan’s life has been spent 40 feet up in a wildfire lookout tower, watching over the mountain communities of Butte Meadows and Jonesville, as well as the ...

Right after he built it, Kresek trucked his lookout around to a couple of big county fairs in Washington and Oregon. It was a popular attraction that drew more than a million visitors, and it was ...

You might thank Pam Morey for the fact that people in tower lookouts were the first to spot 20 or so wildfires in the San Bernardino National Forest last year — fires you never heard about because ...