Cabin at mines east of Quigley, Montana. Front-Mrs. Baggington (left center), Hattie Daigle (right center), Leonard Daigle (right), Delia Daigle (center), Mr. W. J. Babbington (left background with gold pan) [he was one time Missoula County Clerk...
Logging drive camp on Morell flat. Men in photo in front of cook tent are: Keagle (lunch wagon), Norton (Forest Service), Dunstan (Cookee), W. J. Bryon (Foreman), Richmond (Teamster), Dick the cook, and Dominick Ferguson (Foreman). Horse-drawn...
Prichard Creek from mouth of Dream Gulch. Plate 4b. Highway construction altered landscape in foreground. Camera point is approximate. Cottonwood and conifer regeneration screens view of Prichard Creek. Distant slope at right is now covered by...
Landscape photography -- Beaver Creek (Gallatin County, Mont.)
Beaver Creek 3.2 miles downstream from Nelson, Montana. Plate 29b. Douglas-fir regenerated following the late 1800's fire. Understory vegetation, including mountain maple, snowberry, buffaloberry, serviceberry, and currant, has since deteriorated...
Wallace, Idaho. Plate 3b. Douglas-fir regeneration screens part of the original view. Douglas-fir have filled in most of the openings on the distant slopes. Understory vegetation on the southeast-facing slopes directly behind town includes many...
Evaro Hill toward Jocko Mountains. Plate 11b. Camera was offset approximately 300 feet south and 200 feet above original position to avoid screening conifers. Slope is now covered by a dense stand of conifers dominated by Douglas-fir. Shrub...
Sun River Canyon. Plate 21b. Slopes in midground and in distance (left) burned in 1919. Limber pine on near slope were thinned by this fire. The large stand of limber pine at upper left of photo also burned (closed arrow). This fire apparently...
Soup Creek four miles above Soup Creek Crossing. Plate 30b. Canyon bottom is now well covered by vegetation including ponderosa pine, Douglas-fir, Rocky Mountain juniper, chokecherry, dogwood, willow, skunkbush, mountain maple, ninebark, and mock...
Trout Creek narrows below York, Montana. Plate 31b. Flume is gone and a road now occupies most of canyon bottom. Young conifers in rocks at upper-left in the 1872 scene were removed by fire or cutting. Curlleaf mountain mahogany has regenerated on...
Whites Gulch in Big Belt Mountains. Plate 34b. This view is offset approximately 50 feet upslope to avoid vegetation that screens original view. Grass cover in foreground had not been grazed by livestock as of July 26. Canyon bottom now supports...
Sheep Creek near Calf Creek Guard Station. Plate 41b. Mountain big sagebrush has become established in foreground, while cottonwood trees which formerly occupied streambank at lower-center are gone. Increased density and growth of Douglas-fir...
Yogo Creek (Mont.) -- Little Belt Mountains (Mont.)
Yogo Creek above the American Sapphire Mine, Little Belt Mountains. Plate 42b. Douglas-fir predominates on old burn at left. Ponderosa pine stand on the drier southwest slope on right shows less change. Alteration of canyon bottom by road...
Blake Creek on south side of Big Snowy Mountains. Plate 44b. Camera was moved left of original point to avoid trees that screened early view. Regeneration of Douglas-fir has resulted in a landscape dominated by conifers. The rock outcrop visible...
Close-up of rock outcrop on Blake Creek. Plate 45b. This view was offset approximately 100 yards south of original point to avoid Douglas-fir which screened original view. The dense Douglas-fir stand now almost totally obstructs view of rock...
Romy Lake with Gravelly Range in the background. Plate 62b. Raising of the lake level apparently killed willows. ON the flats in the distance, willows are smaller than in 1916. Douglas-fir and other conifers have regenerated in the large opening...
Ruby River east of Ruby Dam and southeast of Sheridan, Montana. Plate 64b. Road reconstruction made it necessary to elevate camera position. Trees and shrubs on flood plain at left in plate 69a were cleared. Those that were not removed have grown...