And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
When I was younger (much younger) the Forest Service advertised every Spring for Summer firewatch jobs in the Gifford Pinchot and Mount Hood forests. Had a Great-Uncle who was a Forest Warden, and I got to visit some of the towers.
I thought those were the coolest jobs around.
By the time I was old enough to apply for one they were being phased out. Damn.
Exiting High School I wanted to enter the Forest Service, I was talked out of it by a female forest ranger.....Joined the Air Force instead, still regret that woman talking me out of Forest Service.
After I graduated, and the Navy rejected my enlistment, I did work for the Forest Service, on a survey crew for timber sale roads. Worked out of Randle, WA.
A number of decades ago, while drive from Eugene to the coast, I saw a lookout tower. I drove up to it and found it abandoned. My cat and I moved in and spent a nice and restful three days, watching the weather and not much else.
Here in N.Central Arkansas, one of our ventures with the cool kids was climbing up onto the fire tower on Red Hill. It was about 40 square at the bottom and about 8 square at the top. A lady would climb the tower during peak fire danger time in the morn and come down late in the day. She climbed the tower with no kids and later with 2. We would sit up there with her and she talked to the fire plane who flew below the top of the tower. Almost 50 years ago. GE
There is a fire tower above Los Angeles, where someone wrote in the cement of one of the support pylons: "On this day, Richard Nixon resigned." Check it out.
A real man would haul a grill up there. ;-)
ReplyDeleteI’d keep my eye on the wind forecast.
ReplyDeleteWhere's the 2 car garage, fire pit and hot tub?
ReplyDeleteWhen I was younger (much younger) the Forest Service advertised every Spring for Summer firewatch jobs in the Gifford Pinchot and Mount Hood forests. Had a Great-Uncle who was a Forest Warden, and I got to visit some of the towers.
ReplyDeleteI thought those were the coolest jobs around.
By the time I was old enough to apply for one they were being phased out.
Damn.
Exiting High School I wanted to enter the Forest Service, I was talked out of it by a female forest ranger.....Joined the Air Force instead, still regret that woman talking me out of Forest Service.
ReplyDeleteAfter I graduated, and the Navy rejected my enlistment, I did work for the Forest Service, on a survey crew for timber sale roads.
DeleteWorked out of Randle, WA.
A number of decades ago, while drive from Eugene to the coast, I saw a lookout tower. I drove up to it and found it abandoned. My cat and I moved in and spent a nice and restful three days, watching the weather and not much else.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the post.
Paul L. Quandt
Here in N.Central Arkansas, one of our ventures with the cool kids was climbing up onto the fire tower on Red Hill. It was about 40 square at the bottom and about 8 square at the top. A lady would climb the tower during peak fire danger time in the morn and come down late in the day. She climbed the tower with no kids and later with 2. We would sit up there with her and she talked to the fire plane who flew below the top of the tower. Almost 50 years ago. GE
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ReplyDeleteNot gonna do it.
Nope!
There is a fire tower above Los Angeles, where someone wrote in the cement of one of the support pylons: "On this day, Richard Nixon resigned." Check it out.
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