IMAGE
Billings Point Lookout Towner Item Info
- Title:
- Billings Point Lookout Towner
- Date Created (ISO Standard):
- 1950
- Approximated Date:
- yes
- Description:
- Billings Point lookout tower - well known vantage spot overlooking the Clearwater tree farm of Potlatch Forests, Inc. This is an important eye for the Clearwater Timber Protective Association, first such organization formed in the U.S. and since copied elsewhere about the world. The association, a cooperative effort of forest owners to protect their lands against fire, was formed in 1906... has one of the best, if not the best, fire record in the U.S.
- Subjects:
- watchtowers
- Location:
- United States;Idaho;Clearwater County
- Latitude:
- 46.636119
- Longitude:
- -115.804104
- Source:
- Potlatch Corporation Historical Archives, 1900-2007, MG 457, University of Idaho Special Collections and Archives
- Finding Aid:
- https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv40829
- Source Identifier:
- 457_204_83_009
- Type:
- image;stillimage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Billings Point Lookout Towner", Potlatch Lumber Company Photograph Collection, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/plcphotos/items/plcphotos721.html
Rights
- Rights:
- In copyright, educational use permitted. Educational use includes non-commercial reproduction of text and images in materials for teaching and research purposes. For other contexts beyond fair use, including digital reproduction, please contact the University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives Department at [libspec@uidaho.edu](mailto:libspec@uidaho.edu). The University of Idaho Library is not liable for any violations of the law by users.
- Standardized Rights:
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/