APPLEGATE, Ore. (AP) - The insulated roof that made the Squaw Peak fire lookout a little more comfortable than most in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest almost proved to be its demise. The ...

Bolan Mountain Lookout is not an easy place to find. Tucked deep in the Siskiyou Mountains straddling the Oregon and California border, it requires driving southeast of Cave Junction, navigating a ...

Each day during fire season, Tobi Beavers and his team of four begin the critical work of watching the southern Oregon forest for any sign of wildfire. They scan the mountains and valleys of the ...

Nick Tolman was enjoying his second day at Bolan Mountain Lookout with his 3-year-old daughter, in September 2020, when he noticed a puff of smoke on the southern horizon. It wasn’t much to begin with ...

SALEM, Ore. – A group of volunteers has restored a Forest Service lookout in the Willamette National Forest along the Cascade Range east of Salem. The restoration of the Gold Butte fire lookout is the ...

Each summer and winter, the U.S. Forest Service rents out a handful of fire lookouts perched atop Oregon mountains from the Strawberries to the Siskiyous to the Cascades. There's nothing quite like ...

A pair of webcams were installed above Lake Chinook in Central Oregon to act as fire lookouts. The high-tech images will be accessible to local firefighters on their laptops or phones. The Oregon ...

Drake Peak Lookout in the Fremont National Forest. (Terry Richard/The Oregonian) These are some of the national forest lookouts in Oregon that are available for public rental during prime summer/fall ...

Maintaining a fire tower lookout can be costly for wildfire agencies, but in the West, many towers are still staffed by seasonal employees. Now the Oregon Department of Forestry is phasing out human ...

Dixie Butte Lookout, Grant County. (Terry Richard/The Oregonian) Fire lookout cabins and towers are mostly on public land, so their locations are open to visitors (unless the area is closed due to ...

The historic structure perched in the mountains above Detroit was in the path of two of Oregon's most destructive wildfires as they roared across 400,000 acres during the Labor Day blowup. The Beachie ...