Striped Peak Lookout.
This file appears in: Fire Lookouts – From Hermit's Castles to Weekend Get-A-Ways
The Striped Peak Lookout of the Coeur d’Alene National Forest was built in 1924. It was accidently burned in 1936 and never replaced. Courtesy of the Museum of North I daho.
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…