1.   As a young hiker, Martin ran into poet Gary Snyder in the Sierra Nevadas who told Martin of his summers as a fire lookout atop Sourdough.

2.   He was a social worker and a fire lookout in the forests.

3.   His sense of space was further enlarged when he worked as a fire lookout in the forests of the Cascades.

4.   My fire lookout is in the mountains of Idaho.

5.   The decades-old demise of the fire lookout, however, has been put on hold.

6.   The urbanizing forests of Southern California are typical of the long fall and recent rise of the fire lookout.

7.   They are old fire lookouts, remnants of American history now serving primarily as popular destinations for hikers.

8.   When I mention that I spend my summers working high on a fire lookout, I am usually met with incredulous stares.

9.   More fire lookouts will be staffed.