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Look Out!

2/15/2021

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This moss-covered old tree doesn’t look like much, but look closer. Maybe a treehouse some kid tacked together back in the dark ages? Staff at Heyburn State Park, where this tree is located, learned what it was at a Civilian Conservation Core (CCC) reunion in the 1980s. It was a fire lookout. Unlike more formal lookouts in forests today, people didn’t spend a lot of time in this one. It was just a simple platform where someone could stand and take a regular look around for smoke after climbing up the tree.
 
Some have questioned this use for the perch, saying it looks like an old hunting tree stand. It may look like one, but its location wouldn’t make much sense for that purpose because of the surrounding topography and height of the platform. Plus, it was the CCC “boys” who led rangers to the perch, telling them the story of what it was used for.  By the way, it’s still there. You wouldn’t want to climb it, though.


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    Rick Just has been writing about Idaho history since 1989 when he wrote and recorded scripts for the Idaho Centennial Commission’s daily radio program, Idaho Snapshots. His latest book on Idaho history is Images of America, Idaho State Parks. Rick also writes a regular column for the Idaho Press.

    Rick does public presentations on Idaho's state park history and the history of the Morrisite war for the Idaho Humanities Council's Speakers Bureau.
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