Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... There’s a small wooden cabin at the top of Northwest Peak, a few miles from Montana’s borders with Idaho and Canada, and Chuck Manning, 79, believes lookouts ...

BLUE RIDGE, Ga. — When Mark Derenthal set out to build a space that allowed occupants to fully immerse themselves in the natural beauty of its remote, off-grid setting, he didn’t realize what a ...

There’s a small wooden cabin at the top of Northwest Peak, a few miles from Montana’s borders with Idaho and Canada, and Chuck Manning, 79, believes lookouts like this one deserve a second chance at ...

PRICHARD, Idaho – The roof on the Little Guard Lookout leaked. The windows wouldn’t open. The outriggers, which hold up the heavy wooden shutters all summer, were splintering. Paint, siding, flooring ...

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 ...

In California, firefighters have a true range of tools available to alert them of wildfires: live cameras mounted throughout forests, satellites orbiting Earth, pilots scanning the terrain in ...