Coeur d'Alene fire lookout in 1928.
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Coeur d’ Alene Mountain Fire Lookout in 1928. The tower started in 1913 as a crow’s nest. Several modifications were made until 1963 changing it to a timber tower. The lookout was gone by 1979. 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…