MCCALL, Idaho (AP) _ A retired smokejumper is leading the push
to restore a fire lookout in central Idaho's Salmon River
Mountains.

The Payette National Forest has provided about $20,000 in
construction materials to the Carey Dome Fire Lookout restoration.

But volunteers including Dan Pierson, a retired smokejumper from
McCall, Idaho, are providing hundreds of hours of labor until the
work is completed in 2011.

One volunteer, John LeClair, came from Alaska recently to work
on the project.

LeClair began his career with the U.S. Forest Service 35 years
ago as a Carey Dome lookout and wanted to return to work on the
restoration of the old cabin.

The Carey Dome lookout was built in 1934, has a 360-degree view
of the surrounding mountains _ and includes seven flights of stairs
extending 72 feet into the sky.


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