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The Year 2009 Miami Mountain Fire Lookout volunteer staffing orentation meeting will be held on Saturday, May 2, 2009 at 10:00AM, in the meeting room at the U.S.F.S. North Fork Ranger Station. The station is located at the intersection of Road 222 and Road 225 in the town of North Fork, California. If you are a resident of Madera, Mariposa, Merced or Fresno County and would be interested in volunteering to help staff the lookout in the 2009 Fire Season, please feel free to contact me (Rich Camp) for further information or call the North Fork Ranger Station at (559) 877-2218 for directions on how to find the meetings location.
Miami Lookout is located in the foothills of the West Central Sierra Nevada Mountains on Miami Mountain. At an elevation of 4327 feet, Miami Mountain overlooks Eastern Madera County, Mariposa County, the South Western Peaks of Yosemite National Park and the North Western Peaks of the Sierra National Forest. Miami Lookout responsible for watching an area of approximately 150 Square Miles. Miami Lookout is now staffed by local volunteers since cutbacks forced the discontinuance of paid staffing in 1995.
Miami Lookout was established and put into service by the Forest Service in 1934. The only perminent lookout on the Sierra National Forest identified in 1933 visibility study that had not previously been used as a lookout. The tower's map location is Township 6 South, Range 20 East, Section 11 on the Sierra National Forest Map.
Miami Mountain Lookout was originally constructed in 1934. The tower is a 20 foot steel non-battered tower with "I" beam corner posts and a C-3 cab with a 14 x 14 foot hip roofed wood lookout house with door in center of wall, with 2-pane windows, and shutter outriggers on top.
The volunteers work in cooperation with the United States Forest Service, "Sierra National Forest" on a frequency of 172.225 Mhz and the California Department of Forestry, "Madera, Mariposa, Merced Ranger Unit" on a frequency of 151.460 Mhz in the detection and reporting of potentially damaging wildfires. Miami Mountain is located on the Mariposa, Madera County line one mile west of California State Highway 49.
Miami is staffed during the declaired fire season which begins about May 15th of each year. The season will continue untill October or November when one inch of precipitation has occured and the declared fire season ends.
Miami Lookout directly overlooks the towns of Nipinnawasee, Ahwahnee, Bailey Flats, Raymond, Coarsegold and Oakhurst in Madera County, and Ponderosa Basin, Usona, Bootjack, Lush Meadows, Mariposa, and Oakgrove in Mariposa County.
The lookout overlooks both State and Federal lands including (reduced resolution photos and description) below:
Click on picture to view in full resolution.
Photos provided courtesy of Alice Ketman.
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