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Green Mountain lookout to get facelift
By GREG JOHNSTON 
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
The rickety, 68-year-old Green Mountain fire lookout high above the Suiattle River east of Darrington will be restored, thanks to a $50,000 grant from the White House Millennium Council's "Saving America's Treasures" program.
A popular hiking destination despite the 3,100-foot gain to reach it (over four miles), the 14-by-14-foot structure, at 6,500 feet, will get a new foundation, catwalk, railings, siding and cable anchor. One of several unused and aging lookouts on national forests of Washington, it was condemned in 1995.
The grant was one of three the Forest Service received. The council issued 62 grants to federal agencies across the nation.
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