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education about the causes of forest fires, along with improved local fire departments, had led to a decline in fires. Aerial observers, who could cover the whole region several times a day, were becoming a more cost-effective way to detect fires, and the state slowly began closing the towers down and dismantling them.
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In the early 1960s the state replaced the 1918 cabin with the current one. Unlike older observer's cabins in the Forest
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who had gotten separated from their group, a short distance from the tower at the lean-to near the south end of the summit. That coincided with the beginning of the end of the era in which the fire towers were an essential component of the region's fire control system. Since the 1950s, better public
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d. Except in an emergency, or during the period
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along a truck road it built connecting to Mill Brook Road at the north so the observers stationed at the tower would not have to hike to the tower from the club's very remote location at the end of a long road up an isolated river valley. In its first year, according to the commission's
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one of the five left in the
Catskill Park along with Balsam Lake, should be dismantled as no longer in conformance with state management guidelines for Forest Preserve lands. He hoped that public opposition would emerge and save the remaining towers, which it did.
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in the
Catskills at 2,580 feet (790 m). It is longer but less of a climb than the southern approach from the slightly lower trailhead at the end of Beaverkill Road. In 1998 the Mill Brook Ridge Trail was built. It starts from the west end of Alder Lake near
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The old road arrives from the east; a foot trail leaves the clearing to the south. Along much of its length the road is accompanied by old telephone poles and downed wire from the communication system that once served the tower. It follows red
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forestry agency, who had put up nine at locations around that state. "In my opinion," Ring wrote him, "one man located at a station will do far more effectual work in discovering and locating fires than a hundred men already patrolling."
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in New York in 1887, when a nearby sportsmen's club built it to protect their lands below the mountain. It was later taken over by the state, which built several towers culminating in the current one. The tower was staffed until 1988.
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south of the mountain, decided to build a tower on the summit to detect fires early. A crew of workmen supervised by the club's warden built a small tower from trees cut near the summit.
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volunteers began restoring the tower in 1999, putting in new stairs and a new roof and windows for the cab. After new ironwork was installed, the tower reopened in 2000.
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as a hiking trail. This gives it a total of 10.9 acres (4.4 ha) of land, most of it owned by the state but some of it property of the descendants of
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and DEC helped the communities near the fire towers form the Catskill Fire Tower Restoration Project. Volunteers in the area raised $ 16,000 through
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That tower stood until 1901, when members of the club went to the summit and found it destroyed by a fire, the probable result of a
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describes the Balsam Lake tower as being staffed "primarily for the entertainment of hikers". One of those was CBS News anchorman
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time the observers were busy. A drought in 1962 led to many fires, and similar conditions the following year resulted in Governor
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at the summit, gradually sloping up to the enclosed cab at the top. Seven flights of steel stairs provide access from the ground.
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as no peaks west of Balsam Lake rise above 3,500 feet (1,067 m), the elevations where it is most commonly found.
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ordering the closing of the Forest Preserve in 1963 and again for short periods the following year.
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mountains, Balsam Lake's higher neighbors to the east, dominate the view from the fire tower, with
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at the northeast corner of the Catskills is visible as well. To the north
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with a metal roof. Just inside the woods to the north is the wooden
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to the state. The distressed forests also heightened the risk of
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structure, anchored by bolts on surface plates into the exposed
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trees to rot and die when they had taken all the usable bark.
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and, at the south end, the remains of an older foundation.
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chewing on the cabin to prevent damage. He also took
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507:Department of Environmental Conservation
494:on its lands near the headwaters of the
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1540:McAllister, Lee; Ochman, Myron (1989).
1333:"Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–"
1217:: The Overlook Press. pp. 585–89.
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1105:New York – New Jersey Trail Conference
919:"National Register Information System"
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1331:Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
1179:: Purple Mountain Press. p. 91.
1030:: Purple Mountain Press. p. 35.
641:1971–present: Decline and restoration
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1727:New York-New Jersey Trail Conference
1550:New York-New Jersey Trail Conference
1393:Herring, Hubert (November 5, 2000).
924:National Register of Historic Places
815:at about 3,300 feet (1,000 m).
690:and art exhibits. DEC employees and
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1799:at the Fire Towers of New York Site
1772:4,000 feet above sea level in the
1761:from the original on 15 March 2010
1682:Catskill Day Hikes for All Seasons
1361:"Balsam Lake Mountain Wild Forest"
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1173:The Catskill Forest: A History
1051:Renehan Jr., Ed (April 2005).
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855:Catskill Mountain fire towers
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109:Show map of the United States
2368:National Historic Landmarks
1476:Ottaway Community Newspapers
1325:American Antiquarian Society
1305:American Antiquarian Society
1135:Schenectady chapter (1988).
1061:Catskill Mountain Foundation
509:(DEC), took over the tower.
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19:United States historic place
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704:Catskill Mountain 3500 Club
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2813:Rock Rift (Tower Mountain)
1793:at Catskill Center website
1022:Podskosch, Martin (2000).
719:Balsam Lake Mountain Trail
403:-roofed hut on a concrete
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991:"Accompanying two photos"
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1611:Adirondack Mountain Club
1145:Adirondack Mountain Club
1137:Guide to Catskill Trails
1133:Adirondack Mountain Club
546:dedicated telephone line
189:10.9 acres (4.4 ha)
32:Fire Observation Station
2493:Bald (Rondaxe) Mountain
2458:Fire lookout towers in
1621:chapter. Archived from
1101:Central Catskill Trails
965:Wes Haynes (May 2000).
2628:Vanderwhacker Mountain
1857:Keeper of the Register
1791:Balsam Lake Fire Tower
1607:"Fire Tower Challenge"
1028:Fleischmanns, New York
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723:Mill Brook Ridge Trail
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2377:Outside New York City
1872:National Park Service
1852:Contributing property
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1053:"Jay Gould's Roxbury"
929:National Park Service
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521:1909–1970: Public use
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362:Dry Brook Ridge Trail
170:42.06972°N 74.57444°W
3012:Fingerboard Mountain
2783:Balsam Lake Mountain
2709:Moose River Mountain
2598:Salmon Lake Mountain
2468:Adirondack Mountains
2061:New York (Manhattan)
1647:Kick, Peter (2006).
1542:Hiking the Catskills
833:Hudson Valley portal
367:The tower itself is
339:consisting of thick
270:Balsam Lake Mountain
206:Aermotor Corporation
124:Balsam Lake Mountain
84:Show map of New York
30:Balsam Lake Mountain
3072:Petersburg Mountain
2823:Utsayantha Mountain
2689:Fort Noble Mountain
2613:Stillwater Mountain
2364:Bridges and tunnels
1692:. pp. 140–41.
1659:. pp. 240–43.
1516:on January 12, 2010
1471:Times-Herald Record
1147:. pp. 241–43.
1107:. 2005. § 6G.
655:Red Hill fire tower
274:Catskill High Peaks
175:42.06972; -74.57444
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3017:Hartzfelt Mountain
2768:Catskill Mountains
2749:Whiteface Mountain
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2684:Dun Brook Mountain
2669:Catamount Mountain
2654:Ampersand Mountain
2618:St. Regis Mountain
2588:Pillsbury Mountain
2578:Owls Head Mountain
2553:Loon Lake Mountain
2543:Hurricane Mountain
1719:New York Walk Book
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