BATES
Iron County
Ottawa National Forest
Ottawa National Forest
June 13, 1943: " 'It's all in the family,' says Mrs. Mary Scalcucci, one of the four women employed as tower watchers by the conservation department, when speaking of her job in the Bates fire tower in Iron county. Mrs. Scalcucci took over her present job of forest fire spotting in the Bates tower, which her husband manned for eight years, to release him to act as fire warden in Crystal Falls." (The Escanaba Daily Press)