Pano said its customers typically pay $50,000 per year to gain access to one fire lookout station. Deep-pocketed companies such as PGE can afford it, but local fire chiefs such as Schneider cannot.

Nationwide, including lookouts run by other federal, state and local agencies, perhaps 300 are in service, according to Gary Weber, treasurer of the Forest Fire Lookout Association, a preservation ...

The Line Fire destroyed a nearly 100-year-old fire lookout tower. The fire stands at 50% containment as of ... Fire Lookout Manager for the Southern California Mountains Foundation told the station.

For the person who wants it all, the answer can be renting a U.S. Forest Service lookout... Fire-lookout rentals offer wilderness with comfort SF Gate Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

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 only full-time lookouts.

Fire lookout stations and radio networks helped rangers in Los Padres National Forest battle wildfires in San Luis Obispo County in the 1950s.

Mike Hiler is a ceramic artist, outdoorsman, monarch butterfly champion, former public school math teacher and wilderness ranger. He wrote a book about fire lookouts in Yakima County.

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 ...