{"id":521,"date":"2017-01-05T16:18:07","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T16:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/old.cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/?p=521"},"modified":"2017-01-05T17:33:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T17:33:09","slug":"squaw-peak-lookouts-new-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/2017\/01\/05\/squaw-peak-lookouts-new-roof\/","title":{"rendered":"Squaw Peak Lookout&#8217;s New Roof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was researching my book I discovered that the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest was readying the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fs.usda.gov\/recarea\/rogue-siskiyou\/recreation\/camping-cabins\/recarea\/?recid=70362&amp;actid=101\">Squaw Peak lookout<\/a> to be a rental. The lookout even had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recreation.gov\/camping\/squaw-peak-lookout\/r\/campgroundDetails.do?contractCode=NRSO&amp;parkId=130540\">page on recreation.gov<\/a>. The project hit some kind of unspecified snag, though, and seemed to be in limbo for awhile.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.recreation.gov\/camping\/squaw-peak-lookout\/r\/campgroundDetails.do?contractCode=NRSO&amp;parkId=130540\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.recreation.gov\/webphotos\/NRSO\/pid130540\/4\/540x360.jpg\" alt=\"Squaw Peak Lookout\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I got the Late Autumn 2016 issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firelookout.org\/learn-more--join.html\">Lookout Network<\/a> and it mentioned that the lookout got a new roof, so I went looking online. Sure enough, the RRSNF had posted an update back on September 19:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FR6RRSNF%2Fposts%2F1083211705080502&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"441\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Mail Tribune did an article on September 19: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mailtribune.com\/news\/20160919\/squaw-peak-lookout-being-readied-for-possible-rental\">Squaw Peak lookout being readied for possible rental<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The insulated roof that made the Squaw Peak fire lookout a little more comfortable than most in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest almost proved to be its demise.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The fiberglass insulation that helped shield early- and late-season fire spotters over the past 73 years was overrun by mice with less-than-hygienic habits, leaving the roof about to collapse and the Forest Service with no cash to reclaim it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a magnet for mice,&#8221; says Don Allen as he peruses the mouse remnants still permeating the lookout&#8217;s interior ceiling. &#8220;We had to wear hazmat gear. We pulled out 480 gallons of insulation and mouse turds.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Great news! Kudos to the Sand Mountain Society for making this happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was researching my book I discovered that the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest was readying the Squaw Peak lookout<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/2017\/01\/05\/squaw-peak-lookouts-new-roof\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Squaw Peak Lookout&#8217;s New Roof<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rogue-river-siskiyou-national-forest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherylhill.net\/firelookouts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}