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Fire detection.

Caption: Ranger Griffin locating distant forest fires using a map and compass from the top of the Mt. Silcox Lookout Station, while on fire patrol duty. Cabinet National Forest [now on Lolo National Forest], Montana.

 

Date: August 3, 1909

 

Photographer: Lubken, W. J.

 

Local Call Number: FHS3499

 

Credit Line: Photo courtesy of the Forest History Society, Durham, NC

 

For information on photo use and more, see the Forest History Society Photograph Collection.

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Taken on August 3, 1909