The Colby Mountain Fire Lookout will open in early June, according to new details released by the U.S. Forest Service. Ken ...

BUTTE MEADOWS, Calif. - The Colby Mountain Fire Lookout will open in early June.  Ken Jordan, the longtime employee at the ...

BUTTE MEADOWS — A petition to ask the U.S. Forest Service to save the Colby Mountain Fire Lookout was among the ideas coming from a community meeting Saturday in this mountain town. About 30 people, ...

This week’s “Remember when?” is provided by the Florence County Historical Museum and looks back at forest lookout towers ...

The first Forestry Commission lookout tower was built in 1930 near Camden by the Civilian Conservation Corps. ⁠The tower network eventually included more than 130 towers and was used for 65 years to ...