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Fire Lookouts of Oregon (Images of America)

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The first lookouts were rustic camps on mountaintops, where women and men were stationed to keep an eye out for wildfires. As the importance of fire prevention grew, a lookout construction boom resulted in hundreds of cabins and towers being built on Oregons high points. When aircraft and cameras was more cost-effective and efficient methods of fire detection, many old lookouts were abandoned or got rid of. Of the many hundreds of lookouts built in Oregon during the last 100 years, not up to 175 remain, and only about half of these are still manned. Then again, some lookouts are being repurposed as rental cabins, and volunteers are continuously working to avoid wasting endangered lookouts. This book tells the tale of Oregons fire lookouts, from their heyday to their decline, and of the effort to avoid wasting the ones which might be left.

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