If, on a hot, dry day a fire should break out within a certain 300,000-acre patch of northwest Montana, in an expanse of backcountry between the crest of the Whitefish Range and the glacier-carved ...

Wildfires are a reality of life in the American West, and in the early to mid-1900s, the Forest Service built a variety of fire lookout towers, situated on the tops of lofty mountain peaks, to ...

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Though Thoma was one of Montana’s staffed locations in 2024, work on a fire lookout is not as prevalent as it was during the structures’ heyday in the mid-20th century.

The Forest Service began building fire-detection towers after the Great Fire of 1910, then added more after the Civilian Conservation Corps and other government agencies considered lookouts ...

The event will start at 9 a.m. at Fire Tower Park, 111 S. Cruse St., and will include remarks from Helena Mayor Wilmot Collins and City Commission members.

Iowa’s State Fire Marshal Division unveiled a tower at Camp Dodge, offering free training to all 900 districts with priority ...

Helena’s Fire Tower, the Guardian of the Gulch, sits on a hill above the Catholic Hill area of old town Helena. The Guardian turned 150 years old this past April.

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State and federal workers built more than 650 lookouts in Montana over the course of the 20th century, but by 2024, roughly one in four of Montana’s lookouts remained standing.

The lookout towers themselves symbolize decades of concerted fire suppression, and in particular the Forest Service’s hard-line stance against wildfires, especially after the great conflagration ...

Fire towers (also known as lookouts) go back thousands of years. Fire towers ... Idaho and Montana, killing 87 people in what is believed to be the largest forest fire in recorded U.S. history.