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June & Gordon Ash
Listen Here June describes the summer of 1952 when she and her husband, Rod Ash, worked as fire lookouts on the Big Swede Lookout in the Kootenai National Forest near Libby, Montana. Ash tells how they moved from Berkeley, California, after attending college for their lookout jobs with the U.S. Forest Service. She shares memories …
Julia Osborn
Listen here Julia talks about her father, Joe Osborn who was a former smokejumper, forest fire lookout, and university professor. Osborn discusses her father’s childhood in Muncie, Indiana, and his time Purdue University. Osborn describes how her father, a Quaker and a conscientious objector, joined the Civilian Public Service during World War Two and volunteered …
Dale Zorn
Listen here Dale describes his childhood in Chester, Montana. He talks about working for the U.S. National Park Service as a fire lookout on Mount Brown soon after he married. Zorn recalls packing supplies up to the lookout, melting snow to get water, and the accommodations and modern conveniences that were available to him and …
2016 Projects
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‘Freaks on the peaks’: the lonely lives of the last remaining forest fire lookouts
The Guardian
NORTHWEST MONTANA CHAPTER – FOREST FIRE LOOKOUT ASSOCIATION RECEIVES GRANT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 13, 2016 Contact: Cathy Calloway The Montana History Foundation has awarded the Northwest Montana Chapter of the Forest Fire Lookout Association a $3400 grant to support a major restoration project this summer at Mud Lake Lookout, on Spotted Bear Ranger District in the Bob Marshall Wilderness on the Flathead National Forest. …
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