Project aims to preserve oral history of fire lookouts

A.E. Boorman rests outside the old Werner Peak Lookout 38 miles north of Kalispell in October 1941. (M.E. Boorman photo)

M.E. Boorman looks out from the Werner Peak Lookout at an elevation of 7,000 feet on October 21, 1941. (courtesy of the Northwest Montana Lookout Association)

Rebecca McNees Osborn gathers snow to melt for drinking water outside of the Spotted Bear Lookout in 1948. (Joe Osborn photo)

Rebecca McNees Osborn washes pots on the stairs of the Spotted Bear Lookout during her honeymoon there with Joe Osborn in the summer of 1948. (Joe Osborn photo)

Rebecca McNees Osborn hangs the laundry out to dry beneath the Spotted Bear Lookout during the summer of 1948. (Joe Osborn photo)

The Limestone Lookout sits high above the valley below. (photo courtesy of the Northwest Montana Lookout Association)

An undated photo shows a pack train bringing supplies to the Kah Mountain Lookout. (photo courtesy of the Northwest Montana Lookout Association)

Harry Fulmer sits at his post outside the Haskill Mountain Lookout in the summer of 1937. (A.E. Boorman photo)

The view of Lakeside and Flathead Lake from the Blacktail Mountain Lookout August 19, 1937. (A.E. Boorman photo)

Al Williams stops for a quick photo just below the lookout on the ascent of Blacktail Mountain August 19, 1937. (A.E. Boorman photo)

George Colby, Glen Locke and James Adams at the base of Blacktail Mountain preparing to take supplies to the lookout there on June 27, 1938. Alfred Williams manned the lookout that season. (A.E. Boorman photo)

The 40-foot tall Blacktail Mountain Lookout the afternoon of August 19, 1937. (M.E. Boorman photo)

Hank Mader stands in front of an unidentified abandoned lookout as he burns it for the National Forest Service in this undated photo. (photo courtesy of the Northwest Montana Lookout Association)