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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, ...

ROSS LAKE NATIONAL RECREATION AREA — He spends his summers in a glass house perched thousands of feet above some of the most scenic wilderness in the world. He has a 360-degree view of spectacular ...

A search is underway for a hiker missing in Glacier National Park since Sunday evening. Anthony Pollio, 33, of Fort ...

Cheryl Hill, author of the new book, “Hiking Oregon’s Fire Lookouts,” shared her 10 favorite treks to lookouts you can rent ...

This summer, the nonprofit Siskiyou Mountain Club will work with the U.S. Forest Service to reconstruct the Bolan Mountain Fire Lookout in southern Oregon, a historic cabin that burned to the ground ...

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 ...

It was one of those special fall days when crystal-clear air allowed the eyes to see further than the imagination. From my mile-high perch on the western nose of Palomar Mountain I could clearly see ...

PIKE NATIONAL FOREST — While historic fire lookouts dot the Colorado landscape, advancing technology has meant fewer of these structures are staffed than in the past; let's meet one of the state's ...