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The Dwindling Days of Fire Lookouts in North America

Just as lighthouses dwindled into obsolescence and into romanticism, so goes the mountaintop fire lookouts that stand sentinel surveying the vast North American wilderness. Sad but unavoidable. Meet Jim Henterly, a naturalist, illustrator and fire lookout who laments on the influence of technology and AI on our human interpretation of the natural world:

 

 

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