Bumblebee Lookout.
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Bumblebee Lookout featured a panoramic window room with outside platform. An Osborne Fire Finder sat in the middle of the room. The tower was destroyed in 1975. Courtesy of the Museum of North Idaho.
This file appears in: Fire Lookouts – From Hermit's Castles to Weekend Get-A-Ways
Fire Lookouts – From Hermit's Castles to Weekend Get-A-Ways
Fire Lookouts – From Hermit’s Castles to Weekend Get-A-Ways
Fire lookouts once dotted maps of the American West. In 1905 President Theodore Roosevelt created the United States Forest Service (USFS) under the Department of Agriculture. The agency…