Cyanide Mountain on the Wood Canyon drainage. Plate 24b. Camera was moved about 100 yards down slope from original position to avoid trees that screened view. Closure of Douglas-fir canopy (lower left) has resulted in deterioration of aspen and...
West side of Sullivan Hill, twenty five miles west of Cascade, Montana. Plate 27a. Fire Group 2: Warm-dry ponderosa pine. Elevation 4600 ft (1402 m). View is north-northeast on west side of Sullivan Hill just off county road about 25 miles west of...
Rattlesnake Cliffs, ten miles southwest from Dillon, Montana. Plate 50a. Sagebrush/Grass Fire Group. Elevation 5,300 ft (1,616 m) The camera faces northeast towards Rattlesnake cliffs and site now occupied by Interstate 15 rest stop about 10...
Teddy Creek and Price's Creek tributaries of Blacktail Deer Creek. Plate 55b. Camera point was moved about 30 feet north to avoid screen of Rocky Mountain juniper and limber pine. Sagebrush density has increased on ridge in foreground, bottomland,...
This is a picture of a framed image. Written on the image is the following caption: "New Chicago, Montana Territory, about 1870. Freight wagons in foreground are regular Salt Lake City freighters, but not operated by Mormons. New Chicago...
South Fork of the Teton River. Plate 18a (July 19, 1899). Fire Group 5: Cool-dry Douglas-fir. Elevation 5100 ft (1555 m). Looking south-southeast across the south fork of the Teton River at a point opposite the Circle 8 Guest Ranch about 35 miles...
South Fork of Teton River, Montana. Plate 18a (July 19, 1899). Fire Group 5: Cool-dry Douglas-fir. Elevation 5100 ft (1555 m). Looking south-southeast across the south fork of the Teton River at a point opposite the Circle 8 Guest Ranch about 35...
Troopers in vicinity of Fort Maginnis. Plate 43a (1888) Fire Group 4: Warm-dry Douglas-fir. Elevation 4,300 ft (1,311 m) A north-northwest view of troopers in vicinity of Fort Maginnis. This fort was located on the east side of the Judith...
Tobacco Root Range from Sheridan, Montana. Plate 65b (September 3, 1980) About 75 years later. Douglas-fir and Rocky Mountain juniper have regenerated profusely. Localities that formerly supported sparse conifer stands are now densely stocked....
Belt (Mont.) ; Lewis and Clark National Forest (Mont.)
Belt Ranger Station. Plate 40b (September 13, 1979) About 49 years later. Camera is positioned lower on slope to allow a less-obstructed view. Conifers on slope behind Ranger Station are predominately Douglas-fir. Lodgepole pine are also present....
North Fork of Big Hole River toward Battle Mountain. Plate 47b (June 25, 1980) 64 years later. Willows appear to be more dense and Douglas-fir are invading what was formerly an open slope. The sparse appearance in upper branches of the sniper...
Dredges ; Bannack (Mont.) ; Grasshopper Creek (Beaverhead County, Mont.)
Maggie A. Gibson dredge on Grasshopper Creek one mile below Bannack. Plate 48a (Ca. 1890-1900) Fire Group 5: Cool-dry Douglas-fir. Elevation 5,800 ft (1,768 m) Looking south-southeast across Grasshopper Creek from west bank about 1 mile below...
North end of Henrys Lake. Plate 58b (June 25, 1981) 109 years later. Foreground now supports a dense mountain big sagebrush stand. Associated vegetation includes scattered snowberry that is being outcompeted by sagebrush, Idaho fescue, bluebench...
From a position on Two Medicine Ridge six miles northeast of East Glacier, Montana. Plate 17a (July 6, 1921). Fire Group 1: Dry limber pine. Elevation 6,200 ft (1,890 m). Camera faces east from a position on ridge above Two Medicine Lake about six...
Philipsburg, Montana. Photo taken by John Venandy, who was married to Tillie Schnepel. John was shot in John Raines saloon by Bill Queener. This photo was taken about where the Elenor Naef home was located in 1868. (This information is contained in...