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 The fire lookout was born out of the creation of the Forest Service and the philosophy of managing forests, sustainably, for their use as resources (one of which has become recreation). Its founder, Gifford Pinchot, was a European educated forester who believed in economic principles of land conservation and sustainable development. In partnership with Teddy Roosevelt, Pinchot established the Forest Service in 1905.
 
-Spurred by lookouts in Europe, Asia, and more recently in primitive fashions by private lumber companies, the Forest Service began outfitting and utilizing lookouts during the early-twentieth century. Initially, the Forest Service was met with opposition from private landowners and capitalists because they felt that the agency would inhibit the free, and largely unregulated, market of logging. 
+Spurred by lookouts in Europe, Asia, and more recently in primitive fashions by private lumber companies, the Forest Service began outfitting and utilizing lookouts during the early-twentieth century. Initially, the Forest Service was met with opposition from private landowners and capitalists because they felt that the agency would inhibit the free and largely unregulated market of logging. 
 
 During the summer of 1910, however, a series of wildfires in Idaho and Montana converged into one giant blaze that was roughly 260 miles long and 200 miles wide. Three-million acres were burned, and eighty-five individuals burned to death. Numerous acts of heroism and a swift response by the Forest Service bolstered public support for the nascent agency. Emboldened by a changing public perception and the need for more effective fire monitoring networks, the Forest Service began building an unprecedented number of fire lookouts over the next twenty years.
 
 During WWII though, significant fire labor was lost due to war time demands. Additionally, when the war ended, much of the technology, including aerial capabilities, began to be used for fire detection purposes. The 1940’s marked the beginning of the technological obsolescence of fire towers. 
 
 Today, fire lookouts are placed intentionally on an interface separating land classifications and are overseen by different agencies, businesses, and individuals. They are also decommissioned on this same principle; those found in the center of what has now been set aside as official wilderness, and is thus not managed as rigorously for fire, are often no longer operational. Unless lookouts have special cultural or personal significance, they are often left to decompose back into the earth. Most lookouts that utilize staff and are fully operational for firefighting purposes are commonly in strategic locations to observe fire strictly for the purpose of making sure it does not cross the wilderness boundary. Examples of this are: <a href="https://keeping.onrender.com/items/st-maries-peak.html" target="_blank">St. Mary's Peak</a> near Lolo and Stevensville, <a href="https://keeping.onrender.com/items/sundance-mountain.html" target="_blank">Sundance Mountain</a> near the towns of Collin and Nordman as well as significant recreational activity, and <a href="https://keeping.onrender.com/items/roughneck-peak.html" target="_blank">Ruffneck Peak</a> nearby the Stanley Basin. 
 
-Another _economic_ dimension many lookouts have is their relationship to wilderness, particularly at the aesthetic level. Some lookouts built in scenic locations on top of craggy mountains are now managed by the Forest Service as <a href="https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/mbs/recreation/recarea/?recid=17850" target="_blank">backpacking shelters</a> or even <a href="https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r1/recreation/?cid=fsp5_030855" target="_blank">rentals</a>. In Idaho, which has more designated wilderness than any other state and, by no coincidence, more fire lookouts, you will find abandoned cabins that freckle the interior of its wildlands. 
+Another dimension many lookouts have is their relationship to wilderness, particularly at the aesthetic level. Some lookouts built in scenic locations on top of craggy mountains are now managed by the Forest Service as <a href="https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/mbs/recreation/recarea/?recid=17850" target="_blank">backpacking shelters</a> or even <a href="https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r1/recreation/?cid=fsp5_030855" target="_blank">rentals</a>. In Idaho, which has more designated wilderness than any other state and, by no coincidence, more fire lookouts, you will find abandoned cabins that freckle the interior of its wildlands. 
 
 On private property, some landowners have even relocated fire lookouts and now service them as <a href="https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/25687274?source_impression_id=p3_1701638521_DPwVvIkSm3ws4mWi" target="_blank">AirBnB rentals</a>. This shift in purpose reveals a changing relationship to wilderness over the last century; lookouts were first built not as conduits of a wilderness aesthetic but rather as extensions of logging and mining in the early twentieth century.