Sun River Canyon. Plate 21a. Fire Group 1: Dry limber pine. Elevation 4600 ft (1402 m). The camera faces north towards the Sun River Canyon from a point 30 to 50 yards north of previous camera point. Castle Reef is at left. Conifers in midground...
Deep Creek, Beaverhead Mountains in distance. Plate 52a. Fire Group 6: Moist Douglas-fir. Elevation 7,900 ft (2,409 m) Looking south across Deep Creek at Beaverhead Mountains in distance. Camera point is on ridge above conifer stand indicated by...
Madison River .3 miles below present Highway 84 bridge crossing. Plate 70b. Logging in the latter 1800's and the absence of fire allowed mahogany to proliferate. Note the large stand at right (arrow) that is growing on a site formerly dominated by...
South fork of Spanish Creek. Plate 74b. Boulders visible in 1931 scene are largely obscured by vegetation that had not bee grazed by livestock at the time of the retake. Sagebrush has increased. The large aspen stand at left-midground has...
Montana Agricultural Experiment Station -- Bozeman (Mont.)
Montana Agricultural Experiment Station , 3 miles east of Bozemen, Montana. Plate 76b. Site of Fort Ellis is now occupied by Montana Agricultural Experiment Station. Closest slopes show a considerable change in occupancy and growth of conifers....
Northwest corner of the Sun River Game Range, Montana. Plate 20a (1909) Fire Group 6: Moist Douglas-fir. Elevation 4600 ft (1402 m) Looking south from a point that today is just outside the northwest corner of the Sun River Game Range. Basin...
Northwest corner of the Sun River Game Range, Montana. Plate 20a (1909) Fire Group 6: Moist Douglas-fir. Elevation 4600 ft (1402 m) Looking south from a point that today is just outside the northwest corner of the Sun River Game Range. Basin...
East side of Judith Mountains twenty miles northeast of Lewistown, Montana. Plate 43b (July 18, 1980) 92 years later. Taken in the season, the foreground vegetation shows effects of current livestock grazing. Shrubs including chokecherry, currant,...
Bradley Creek drainage four miles south of Norris, Montana. Plate 69b (July 29, 1981) 80 years later. Foreground is in fenced pasture. Aspen clone at left has regenerated from suckers. Conifers are more dense, and skunkbush on lower slope at...
Snowline Ranch 7.3 miles east of Lima, Montana. Plate 51b (June 2, 1981) Railroad right-of-way and Snowline Ranch now occupy valley bottom. Fire's absence since 1890 has allowed Douglas-fir to develop and displace several aspen. Aspen communities...
Snowline Ranch 7.3 miles east of Lima, Montana. Plate 51a (1871) Fire Group 6: Moist Douglas-fir. Elevation 6,000 ft (2,012 m) The camera faces south-southwest from a position near the Snowline Ranch 7.3 miles east of Lima, Montana, on Interstate...
Pleasant Valley Creek 8.4 miles south of Monida Pass. Plate 53a (1871) Sagebrush/Grass Fire Group. Elevation 6,400 ft (1,951 m) Camera faces southwest up Pleasant Valley Creek from ridge located on west side of Interstate 15, 8.4 miles south of...
Alder Gulch 2.2 miles above Virginia City, Montana. Plate 68b (July 28, 1981) 110 years later. The large Douglas-fir in foreground-left (arrow) is the same pictured in the original scene. Regeneration of Douglas-fir and Rocky Mountain juniper on...
Boissevain-Weisel Ranch near Seeley Lake, Montana. Now known as the Double Arrow Resort. Main log building with a large dog on the ground in front of the building.