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FHS3600th

Image ID:  FHS3600
Image Date:  May, 1929
Image Title:  Treetop lookout tower.
Image Caption:  Caption 1: Lookout station built from a Douglas-fir. Floor of house is 170 feet from the ground. Man is over 6 feet tall. Olympic Peninsula, Washington overlooking southwest corner of Olympic National Forest, 1929.

Caption 2: [Fire lookout built by Pete Miller in 1927 on the Quinault Indian Reservation on a ridge above Cook Creek overlooking the Olympic National Forest. Lookout cubicle is seven by seven feet, the spiral ladder is made from steel rods in the trunk joined together by logging cable.]

Photographer:  Steer, H.B.
Use Restrictions:  Permission from the Forest History Society required for any use of this image.
Repository Contact Information:  Forest History Society, Inc.; 701 William Vickers Ave., Durham, NC 27701; Tel.: (919) 682-9319; Fax: (919) 682-2349.