The first Lookouts were rustic camps on mountaintops, where men and women were stationed to keep an eye out for wildfires.
This book tells the story of Oregon\'s Fire lookouts, from their heyday to their decline, and of the effort to save the ones that are left..
However, some Lookouts are being repurposed as rental cabins, and volunteers are constantly working to save endangered lookouts.
Of the many hundreds of Lookouts built in Oregon over the past 100 years, less than 175 remain, and only about half of these are still manned.
When aircraft and cameras became more cost-effective and efficient methods of Fire detection, many old Lookouts were abandoned or removed.
As the importance of Fire prevention grew, a lookout construction boom resulted in hundreds of cabins and towers being built on Oregon\'s high points.
The first Lookouts were rustic camps on mountaintops, where men and women were stationed to keep an eye out for wildfires
