2026 Events

Brews for Benefits at Cabinet Mountain Brewing Where: Cabinet Mountain Brewing When: Every Thursday in October from 5:30-7:30pm What: CMBC pledges to donate $1 of every beer sold between 5:30-7:30pm to NMLA's mission of preserving and restoring fire lookouts in northwest Montana. Membership Appreciation Night Where: Sacred Waters Brewery When: Wednesday, Sept 30 What: Celebrate …

2026 Projects

Thank you to our 2026 NMLA members for a successful project season! See you next year. 2026 Volunteer Information GuideDownload Learn more about our 2026 projects below Assessments Glacier National Park Mount Brown Condition Assessment Built in 1929, Mount Brown Lookout is Glacier National Park's one of the oldest remaining fire lookouts, featuring a short …

Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions How can I get involved? You canย become a memberย of NMLA,ย donate,ย orย volunteerย for a summer work project. Details on our website. We also haveย volunteer opportunitiesย throughout the year, including building our archives, oral histories and photo library, fundraising, social media, photography and grant-writing. We also occasionally have openings for new Board Members. Who owns the local …

Marli & Rick Davis

June 8, 2025 listen to a shortened (~15 minute), AI-created podcast of this interview here listen to the full interview here โ€‹Rick and Marli Davis discuss their experiences as lookout staff for the Flathead National Forest on Cyclone Lookout from 1971-1975 and on Baptiste Lookout and again Cyclone as volunteers, from 2012 to the present. …

2025 Projects

Numa Ridge Lookout Assessment Built in 1934, Numa Ridge Lookout is located on the ridge west of Numa Peak, just north of Bowman Lake. Numa overlooks the North Fork of the Flathead River drainage. Numa is a standard wood frame, 14x14-ft house set on a 10-ft tower with catwalk. It is the most northern lookout …

Diane Boyd

February 9, 2025 listen to a shortened (~15 minute), AI-created podcast of this interview here Listen to the full interview Here Diane Boyd, a lookout veteran from the early 1980s, discusses being born and raised in Minnesota. She shares that she moved to Montana in 1979 for a Master's study on the only wolf in …