In 2017, Boise entrepreneur Kristie Mae Wolfe, who had already developed a following on Airbnb for her whimsical rentals ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... There’s a small wooden cabin at the top of Northwest Peak, a few miles from Montana’s borders with Idaho and Canada, and Chuck Manning, 79, believes lookouts ...

There’s a small wooden cabin at the top of Northwest Peak, a few miles from Montana’s borders with Idaho and Canada, and Chuck Manning, 79, believes lookouts like this one deserve a second chance at ...

The Bitterroot Mountains seem to float above the smoky valley, their rough black peaks softened by haze. Sunset backlights the ridges, shooting shafts of light downward and outward making it look as ...

The sun sets behind Baptiste Lookout in the Flathead National Forest this past August. (Photo by Mark Hufstetler) This story was originally published by Montana Free Press. Chuck Manning, 79, took ...

LEWISTON – Fire lookouts occupy an uncommon spot in the world. Their function is simultaneously anachronistic and essential. They exist in wildly remote spaces yet are satellites of human ...

Editor’s note: The following is a letter written by Gary McHargue, a retired Forest Service employee of 31 years. McHargue was the person who hired Ken Jordan as lookout at the Colby Mountain Lookout ...

A nearly 90-year-old fire lookout cabin overlooking Lassen National Forest and the Ishi Wilderness — once used as a wartime defense station, then as a rentable vacation getaway — was destroyed in the ...

TROY, Mont. — Chuck Manning, 79, took careful steps as he circled a small wooden cabin at the top of Northwest Peak, an aptly named mountaintop a few miles from Montana’s borders with Idaho and Canada ...