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Adopt Your Favorite Lookout! The Fire Lookout Host Program Visit a Lookout Today! FIRE LOOKOUT HOST Simply put, Volunteer Fire Lookout Hosts can’t The first known Fire Lookout in America was Come enjoy endless views while learning about keep the lookouts open without your help. located in downtown Harlem, New York. A Lookouts and the forest they protect. Volunteer PROGRAM Hosts welcome visitors and enjoy explaining We’re inviting you to “Adopt-A-Lookout” to help heavy duty iron bell tower and observation how these historic structures are part of us keep all seven historic lookouts maintained and cupola was built in 1856, on a hilltop in what is modern fire detection and suppression efforts. staffed. now Marcus Garvey City Park. The tower still stands to this day. In the early 1900’s fire Everyone who Adopts a Lookout will receive the detection and suppression became a priority. Tahquitz Peak following: Towers began to be built across the country; Lookout earlier lookouts were on high peaks, in tall $25 Decal and a certificate noting your located in trees with platforms built in them. The fire adopted Lookout. Idyllwild was watchers lived in tents and were often the ones $50 The above plus a detailed history of refurbished, to fight the fire. your Lookout. reopened and

$100 All the above plus an 8x10 color has been photo of your Lookout. In the 1910’s construction standards were put staffed since $500 All the above plus a private tour of in place and soon thereafter, wooden cabs and October 17, your Lookout. steel towers began to be built for the fire 1998. $1,000+ Your name on a special recognition watchers. In 1933 the Civilian Conservation plaque in the Lookout and all of the Corp (CCC) formed and was assigned to various above. public works projects. Building Fire Lookouts The Fire Lookouts are maintained and staffed was one of those projects. In the peak of by more than 300 dedicated and highly trained Contact the Fire Lookout Host Coordinators if building Fire Lookouts there where over 600 volunteers who give more than 17,000 interested. Pam or George Morey (909) 225-1025 built in California alone. volunteer hours each year. Lookout Hosts work from May through November spotting smoke, educating visitors about the history of Fire Lookout Host Program In the 1970’s and early 1980's these historic the Fire Lookouts, mountain ecology, and 602 Tippecanoe Ave. building were being closed due to urbanization keeping the Lookouts a vibrant part of our San Bernardino, CA 92408 in the foothills, use of aircraft, budget cuts, local mountains. Some are even re-open in smog, and new technology. Many of these The Fire Lookout Host Program is a partnership Fire Lookout Hosts strive to provide an winter during the Santa Ana winds. between the U.S Forest Service and the buildings were burned, lost in wildfires, enjoyable experience to Lookout guests so that Southern California Mountains Foundation. vandalized and torn down. Here on the San their visit to the forest is complete and well Bernardino National Forest seven of those rounded. By providing this service we can help historic Lookouts were spared. A Fire Lookout preserve the Lookouts, increase public Volunteer looks awareness, and create a desire among visitors at a smoke to conserve and help care for public lands. Fire Today, through partnership with the San from Lookout Hosts assist the pre-suppression and Bernardino National Forest and the Southern Strawberry suppression units of the Forest Service by California Mountains Foundation (SCMF), the Peak Fire For more information visit watching for and reporting smoke, fire, and Fire Lookouts once again serve our local Lookout. mountainsfoundaiton.org/fire-lookouts collecting and reporting weather data. mountains. 3 4 5 6

Butler Peak Lookout, located in Fawnskin, was Watching for Wildfire reopened in 1986 by “The Friends of the Black Mountain Forest”. In 1993 SCMF was formed and the Wildfire is a constant threat to our Southern Lookout Fire Lookout Host Program Volunteers merged California National Forests and that’s why it’s located in Pine to staff the lookout. so important to keep our Fire Lookouts Cove was operating. Did you know that there are refurbished, seven Fire Lookouts in the San Bernardino reopened and National Forest protecting our forest and has been nearby communities? staffed since September 1996. Keller Peak Lookout located in Running Springs was reopened in 1985 by “The Rim Morton Peak of the World Interpretive Association”. In A Fire Lookout Lookout located 1993 SCMF was formed and the Fire Volunteer is above Yucaipa Lookout Host Program Volunteers merged calling in a A Fire Lookout was refurbished, to staff the lookout. smoke sighting Volunteer is reopened and to reading the has been staffed San Bernardino azimuth of a since 2001. FCC smoke sighting and Become a Fire Lookout Host transferring to reporting Each year training takes place for new form volunteers in the month of April. There are four mandatory training classes:

Fire Lookout Cook Book 1. Orientation (2 hours) Red Mountain 2. Interpretation/Natural History (3 hours) Proceeds from “Cookin’ with Fire Lookouts” Lookout located 3. Operations (7 hours) helps preserve these historic towers. The in Anza was original source of the recipes are hand-me- refurbished, We offer several dates and locations for each down family recipes, newspaper clippings, and reopened and of these classes. After the classroom training, long-lost cookbooks. To order has been new volunteers will also be required to a cookbook send $15.00 staffed since Strawberry Peak Lookout located in Twin complete 8 and 1/2 hours of “In-Tower” minimum donation per book June 5, 1999. Peaks was reopened in 1982 by “The Rim training in the Lookout of their choice. This is plus $3.50 for shipping to: the first actual shift in a Lookout with an of the World Interpretive Association”. In Fire Lookout Hosts Cookbook 1993 SCMF was formed and the Fire experienced Lookout Host. A Fire Lookout Host 602 South Tippecanoe Ave. Lookout Host Program Volunteers merged is required to volunteer a minimum of 8 and San Bernardino, CA 92408 to staff the lookout. 1/2 hours per month in any Lookout they choose.