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Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
From one of the last working fire lookouts comes this sequel to the award-winning Fire Season-a story of calamity and resilience in the world's first wilderness.A dozen years into his dream job keeping watch over the Gila National Forest of New Mexico, Philip Connors bore witness to the blaze he had always feared: a megafire that forced him off his mountain by helicopter and forever changed the forest and watershed he loved. It was one of many transformations...
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In the 1880s the U.S. Forest Service didn't hire women, thinking they couldn't handle the physical challenges of the work, but Hallie Morse Daggett overcame discrimination to become the first woman "fire guard" hired by the U.S. Forest Service"--
Author
Publisher
Sondra Jackson Kellogg
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Sodra Jackson Kellogg manned the tower during the summers of 1960 and 1962 with her husband, Jim Jackson. This video describes life on the tower, the detection of forest fires, and the history of the Mt. Thorodin Fire Lookout from 1949 until it was dismantled in 1996. Also includes information about and images of other fire lookouts along the Front Range, From Wyoming border to Devil's Head Fire Lookout in the Pike National Forest.
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