Converting the Fire Lookout Tower to a nature observation tower allows visitors to experience the natural forest cycle rather than suppressing the forest cycle.
Giving a new life to these abandoned wood framed buildings allows visitors to visit a place of solitude in the great outdoors surrounded by Canadian history.
Timber is a major industry that is an integral part of Canada's economy and therefore hundreds of
towers were built across Canada to have surve ilance over the stock. The goal of the Fire Lookout
Tower was to view the landscape in a certain, specific, highly regulated way that frames this act of
disciplined sureveillance. New technologies like drone scanning and satalite images have left these
structures completely abandoned. The hiking community adopted these deserted buildings, and
without upgrade, they will inevitably be destroyed by the harsh environments that surround them.