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    Fire Detection – Lookout Towers

    By Eben Lehman on January 30, 2017
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    Crossett Lumber Company fire tower, Arkansas.
    Crossett Lumber Company fire tower.
    Postcard of Mt. Lassen lookout station.
    Fire lookout tower, Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company.
    Lookout tower, Waycross, Georgia.
    Lookout tower at Larch Mountain, Oregon.
    Open Pond lookout tower, Conecuh National Forest, Alabama.
    Hembre Ridge Lookout, Tillamook Burn, Oregon, 1952.
    Minot Mountain Lookout, Clemons Tree Farm, Washington.
    Lookout on Dow Mountain, Washington.
    U.S. Forest Service lookout tower, Decatur, Alabama.
    Group in front of Mt. Hood lookout station.
    Mosley Hill lookout tower, Kisatchie National Forest, Louisiana.
    Crosby Lumber Company fire tower.
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    Shake Butte lookout tower.
    Mt. Coolidge fire lookout, South Dakota.
    Holly Springs National Forest lookouts, Mississippi.
    Fire lookout on Mount Bigelow, Santa Catalinas, Coronado National Forest, Arizona.
    Soctum Hill Tower, Alabama.
    Soctum Hill fire tower.
    Morrell Mountain lookout, Montana.
    Mrs. Carson climbs the Gundlach Tower (Gundlock), Mississippi.
    Devil's Head Fire Lookout, Pike National Forest, Colorado.
    Devil's Head lookout, Colorado.
    Fire lookout tower at Camp Parrydice, North Carolina.
    Crazy Horse Lookout Tower, Lolo National Forest.
    Fairview fire tower, Arkansas.
    Blue Point lookout station, Idaho.
    Dutch Joe Lookout Tower, Sitgreaves National Forest, Arizona.
    Pine pole lookout, Clark National Forest, Missouri.
    Helen Dowe at Devil's Head Fire Lookout .
    Single pole fire lookout tower, Crosby, Mississippi.
    Sisters Lookout Tower, Deschutes National Forest, Oregon.
    Ranger Peak Lookout, San Bernardino National Forest.
    Fuji Lookout, Willamette National Forest, Oregon.
    Eddy's Gulch lookout station, Klamath National Forest, California.
    Elise Mountain lookout station.
    Huckleberry Hill lookout, British Columbia, Canada.
    Hembre Ridge lookout, Tillamook Burn, Oregon.
    Buck Rock lookout station, Sequoia National Forest, California.
    Blackjack Knob pole tower, Clark National Forest, Missouri.
    Chimney Rock Lookout Tower, San Juan National Forest, Colorado.
    Harney Peak Lookout, South Dakota.
    Kelly Butte Lookout.
    Buck Mountain lookout, Willamette National Forest, Oregon.
    Lookout tree on Turkey Knob, Webster County, West Virginia.
    Pole tower, Camp F-17, Winona, Missouri, Clark National Forest.
    Rich Mountain, Arkansas, Lookout Tower.
    Twin Sisters fire lookout, Colorado National Forest, Larimer County.
    Cook Creek lookout, Quinault Indian Reservation, Washington.
    Castle Peak lookout, White River National Forest, Colorado. " data-envira-height="300" data-envira-width="231" />
    Jay's Roost Lookout Tower, Medicine Bow National Forest, Wyoming.
    Treetop lookout tower, Pennsylvania.
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