Smithsonian Folklife Festival (2005):
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- FOLK_050701_41.JPG: Fire Lookout Towers have been a part of the Forest Service since 1917. Generally, a lookout spends a whole fire season living alone in the tower, scanning the area for smoke. Although it may seem like lonely work, most fire lookouts enjoy it and return season after season. Some of the earliest lookouts were wives of forest rangers stations in remote areas.
Donna Ashworth, a lookout for 22 consecutive seasons at the Woody Mountain Fire Lookout in Arizona's Coconino National Forest, never tires of her job. "There's always beauty. There's always the drama of the sky. The sky moves and changes; the land doesn't, unless there is something like shadows of clouds passing over. The wind blows from varying directions -- a different speed every minute. I live in the air. I can see 60, 80, 100 miles." Ashworth uses her work in the tower as a time for thinking, learning about new subjects, playing on her keyboard, and writing books. "I'm working on a theory that if phone calls and business decisions, lawsuits and legislation were conducted from a cabin on a stormy night, this would be a happier country."
Many fire lookout towers are between 70 and 100 feet tall -- their looming presence in the national forests a reminder of the ever-watching fire lookouts.
- FOLK_050701_46.JPG: Sustainable Resource House:
Wood is a sustainable resource, and engineered wood products -- such as those uses to construct this single-family house -- use less wood while providing increased strength, durability, and energy efficiency. Since World War II, roughly 95 percent of the homes in the United States have been built from wood. Natural resource management, coupled with the use of new wood products, strives to ensure that there will be healthy forests and efficient housing for generations to come.
This house is built with roof sheathing made of plywood (the first engineered wood product), laminated veneer lumber (above the large window), and a glue-laminated ridge beam.
Structural insulated panels are an assembly of rigid foam insulation sandwiched between two skins of oriented strand board. In this house they are being installed for the walls and roof.
- Description of Subject Matter: Four focuses this year:
Food Culture USA
Oman: Desert, Oasis, and Sea
Forest Service, Culture, and Community
Nuestra Música
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