Frisco is on the verge of regaining one of its iconic landmarks, roughly a century after it disappeared. Contractors are ...

Sand Mountain needed its lookout tower back. East Zigzag Lookout being burned by a Forest Service ranger in 1965. Many of the historic lookout towers were intentionally burned by the Forest Service.

“But I’m preserving history for future generations. I’m preserving not only the lookout, but the forest and the animals.” At their peak, 625 fire lookout towers stood watch in California.

After his junior year, he moved to the Vinegar Hill Lookout in the Malheur National Forest. He was joined by his new wife, who was pregnant with their son, Don Allen III.

Pam Morey, the coordinator for the San Bernardino National Forest’s fire lookout host program, scans for smoke from the Keller Peak fire lookout tower in the San Bernardino National Forest, near ...