I wonder who builds these
Seriously? They are Fire watch towers and the Forestry service builds them.
if it has a decent satellite internet hookup, I would be so willing to man/live in one of these. Fuck civilization, I’ll be a forestry hermit.
Many of them, and the roads to get to them, were built during the depression by the CCC! It was a BIG part of the new deal, and it put young people with no or little training to work on conservation and natural resources projects – they planted trees, built national parks buildings, and fire lookout towers!
My great grandfather came out to Oregon from Nebraska with a CCC job. He didn’t do the towers, but he did do the roads that got people there, and at 91 he could still show you on a map which he’d worked on. 😀
Addendum: I love how the various notes saying things like “lovely – away from the insanity” are rather ignoring that firewatch towers tend to be in places that are sometimes on fire, and in fact, many of them are on fire right now.
That’s not a proper firewatch tower, but a house built to emulate
one. That’s still pretty cool, of course! There’s a video showcasing the house on YT with a
neat little interview
with the ownersabout the house itself and firewatch towers more in general:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkArlRbA9VM
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