DCHP-3

lookout tower

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a high tower from which a trained forestry employee watches for forest fires and reports the position so that action may be taken to fight them.

Quotations

1958
In the Slave Lake division, three lumber roads . . . are closed, along with the . . . Flattop trail leading from Highway 2 south to Flattop lookout tower. . . .
1962
It's a lonely life for a man confined to a glass dome atop a lookout tower.