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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



for instant use. The most important piece of equipment 

 is the Osborne fire tinder, the invention of a Forest :5er- 



xow A fermam:.\t station 



First just a temporary lookout, this was converted into a perma- 

 nent station by the construction of a stone house which serves 

 as living quarters for the observer. You can see him up in the 

 "crow's nest" looking for "smokes" on the Bridger National For- 

 est, Wyoming. 



vice officer by that name, with which the location of 

 smokes is determined. It is in such an observatory that the 



THE "LADY LOOKOUT" 



The inside of an up-to-date fire lookout observatory on a Na- 

 tional Forest, equipped with the latest scientific instrument for 

 the locating of "smokes" the Osborne Fire Finder, and 

 "manned" by one of Uncle Sam's lady lookouts. The Devil's 

 Head Lookout on the Pike National Forest. 



A FIRE LOOKOUT IN AN UNUSUAL LOCATION 



\-.,i; !* '1'^.'""^* ""i'lue forest fire lookout tower in the country, for it is located in the treeless sand hills region of the Nebraska 

 Ln l' ''"^'*'- wn*^''!-- the Government has reforested 5,000 acres of rolling grass lands. Note the fire line-the white streak- 

 ana the jouiig plantation of pine trees on the right. 



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