Society for Wilderness Stewardship

A decade ago Philip Connors left work as an editor at the Wall Street Journal and talked his way into a job far from the streets of lower Manhattan: working as one of the last fire lookouts in America. Spending nearly half the year in a 7' x 7' tower, 10,000 feet above sea level on Apache Peak in the Gila National Forest’s Aldo Leopold Wilderness Area, his tasks were simple: keep watch over one of the most fire-prone forests in the country and sound the alarm at the first sign of smoke. His book, Fire Season, captures his time as a fire lookout.



For more information on the book, visit Amazon.