The historic Colby Mountain Fire Lookout will remain staffed and operational for fire season after the decision to close it was reversed.

It takes some effort to hike there, but this once abandoned tower in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is worth the ...

A camera detection system is a band aid. A camera cannot fully evaluate the surrounding terrain. A camera cannot interpret ...

Forest preservationists in the nation’s Heartland are again pushing Congress to nearly triple the size of a Southern Indiana wildland complex in the Hoosier National Forest, guardedly hopeful it will ...

Idaho Fire Lookouts is an independent research and documentation project focused on the history of fire lookout towers across Idaho. The project combines field research, archival work, and public ...

Two and a half hours north of Sacramento — halfway from anywhere — an ancient metal and wood observation tower perches atop a hillside. For 92 years, someone has kept watch from the Colby Mountain ...

The tower, located north of Butte Meadows, has been closed since October of 2025 when the U.S. Forest Service announced its ...

The Butte County Board of Supervisors is considering a letter to keep the Colby Mountain Fire Lookout open, crucial for wildfire detection ...

Collaboration agreement promotes cooperative management of Forest Service lands. The agreement focuses on recreation, watershed, wildfire risk and timber. A number of conservation groups have shared ...

A Bozeman-area landowner’s challenge of a road easement granted to the Forest Service in 1967 was shot down by a Butte District Court Judge.

Gov. Spencer Cox signed a deal Thursday with the U.S. Forest Service that, the parties said, will give Utah a seat at the table in managing more than 8 million acres of national forests while ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah and the U.S. Forest Service have reached a consent on a new 20-year cooperative agreement, which state leaders believe will better give them a seat at the table in forest ...