"A soft whisper of wind through the whitebark pines ...

ever changing shadows in a myriad of drainages ... hawks soaring the thermals ...

songbirds tuning up for the grand overature ...

the golden hues of the sunset ...

""Fire Lookouts Of The Northwest" - Ray Kresek

2015

2014 Gallery

2013

Kjell Petersen

Baptiste - Back From The Brink

Volunteer Refresher - 2014

NWMT-FFLA Board

Happy Volunteers - Ann, Beth & Inez

2014

Nothing I've done since being

on a lookout has left me

feeling so free and happy.

Debo Powers

Baptiste Shroud

Reservoir Rain

Lookout TV

Sky Fire

"There is a difference between solitude and feeling alone. How can I feel alone in this vast wilderness surrounded by majestic peaks, forest teeming with wild animals, wildflowers of every color, roaring creeks, and clouds in every direction? I am a part of it all...

even as the grizzly or the wolf."

Debo Powers

2014

"The flames reflecting on the ceiling

from the wood stove this morning

created a mini manic aurora borealis

that entertained me until dawn

stole the show."

KjelliLama

2014

Morning Glory

Ann Fagre

Supplies on the Hoof

Debo Powers

Three Dimensions

Zen Family Garden

Ann Fagre

"Mountain goats spend a lot of time

thinking deep thoughts and looking out

into space....in a short period of time

I was able to perfect those skills."

Stewart Brandborg

1964 Wilderness Advocate

"Down the long mountain-slopes the

sunbeams pour, gilding the awakening

pines, cheering every needle,

filling every living thing with joy."

John Muir

2014

Children's Moon

Kjell Petersen

Super Moonset

Kjell Petersen

Blue Moon...ya think?

Edge of the Storm

Kjell Petersen

"The stars......

so many...so close...so bright;

I worried they might freeze my fingers

if I reached too high"

KjelliLama

Advice From The Moon---

Take time to reflect-

Light up the night-

Live life to the fullest-

Be someone to look up to-

Kjell Petersen

2014

"Although a man may wonder about the eternal riddle of his own personality with reference to the universe, he does not have to worry about a sudden wiping out of himself if he thinks up a gadget like the fire finder. Every time a Lookout twirls the outer ring and lines up the peephole in the rear sight with the horse hair in the front, he is makihng a team of himself and Osborne in playing the crucial early minutes of

the game against fire."

Tatoosh - Martha Hardy - 1946

Ready for Action

In The Crosshairs

Lookout Icon

Night Shift

Kjell Petersen

Becky Lomax

"I take a couple of minutes to regulate my breathing and douse my sizzling nerve ends in the cold water of government professionalism before I press the transmit button on the radio. Otherwise I'd sound as if I were the thing on fire."

The Fire Season - Philip Connors

2014