Grande Prairie Museum gains a fire lookout tower [Video]

The Grande Prairie Museum has added another building to its historic village.

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A fire lookout tower was relocated there from the Grande Prairie Alberta Forestry offices near 84 Avenue and 108 Street on Sept. 30. 

“It’s very historic; it will help us tell the story of forestry in Alberta,” said Charles Taws, Grande Prairie museum curator.

“The museum does have a small forestry section and we’d like to have forestry represented in a larger way.”

The tower was in disrepair, and Alberta Forestry offered it to the museum.

“This has been a project that we’ve been working on for a while with the Grande Prairie Museum and the Peace Historical Society, and also with the Forest History Society of Alberta,” said Kelly Burke, Alberta Wildfire information co-ordinator for the Grande Prairie Forest Area.

“We’ve been …