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Fire lookouts of Oregon /
- Title
- Fire lookouts of Oregon / Cheryl Hill.
- Author
- Hill, Cheryl, 1979-
- Publication
- Charleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing, [2016]
- ©2016
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Details
- Description
- 127 pages : chiefly illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "The first lookouts were rustic camps on mountaintops, where men and women were stationed to keep an eye out for wildfires. 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. When aircraft and cameras became more cost-effective and efficient methods of fire detection, many old lookouts were abandoned or removed. 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. However, some lookouts are being repurposed as rental cabins, and volunteers are constantly working to save endangered lookouts. 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."--
- Series Statement
- Images of America
- Uniform Title
- Images of America.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Illustrated works.
- Pictorial works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (page 127).
- Contents
- Introduction -- North Coast -- North Cascades -- Central Cascades -- South Cascades -- Southwest Oregon -- Central Oregon -- Eastern Oregon -- Bibliography.
- ISBN
- 1467134864
- 9781467134866
- LCCN
- 2015947044
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library