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Bo Zarts

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12. E.M. Forster would have called it "A Room with a View." But a view out is often a view in, too.
Wed Sep 25, 2024, 06:00 PM
Sep 2024

The standard L-4 design for US Forest Service fire lookout live-in cabins, which specifies one 15'x15' "glass" room, goes way, way back. The glass .. while esthetically pleasing .. is to facilitate spotting forest fires .. nothing else. I have even worked in lookouts that are so old, and without remodeling, that they have "wavy" glass panes from the 1920s and 30s. And if someone can see in, even out in the wilderness, then it is totally their problem (in many more ways than one).

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