Landscape photography ; Wallace Ranger District (Idaho)
Across Prichard Creek into Reeder Gulch. Plate 5a (1897) Fire Group 11: Warm-moist grand fir, western red cedar, and western hemlock. Elevation 3,300 (1,006 m) Camera faces northeast across Prichard Creek into Reeder Gulch near Murray, Idaho, on...
Boothill above Virginia City, Montana. Plate 67a ( 1924) Sagebrush/Grass Fire Group. Elevation 5800 ft (1768 m). The camera faces north from Boothill above Virginia City, Montana. Graves are those of five members of Henry Plummer's infamous road...
Smith River three miles from the head of Spring Coulee. Plate 38b 72 years later. Regeneration and growth of Douglas-fir (outset) made it necessary to move camera approximately 75 yards northeast to the only natural opening. Open slope in 1909...
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....
Daphnia Pond and Swan Range on the east side of Flathead Lake. Plate 8a (1902) Fire Group 6: Moist Douglas-fir. Elevation 3,100 ft (945 m) Camera faces north toward Daphnia Pond and Swan Range on the east side of Flathead Lake, 3 miles north of...
Elkhorn, Montana. Plate 71a (1901) Fire group 6: Moist Douglas-fir. Elevation 6600 ft (2012 m). The camera faces northeast from a point high on the slope above Elkhorn, an early mining town in the Elkhorn Mountains of west-central Montana. Adjacent...
Elkhorn Mountains of west-central Montana. Plate 71b (September 3, 1981). 80 years later. Camera has been elevated to an opening on a ridge that allows a partial view of original scene. Dense Douglas-fir and lodgepole pine now cover most of the...
Landscape Photography ; Lewis and Clark National Forest (Mont.)
Slopes above Haystack Springs in Dry Range . Plate 37b (September 24, 1981) 57 years later. Camera was placed approximately 50 yards upslope and behind the original position to avoid aspen that screen original view (inset). Aspen have regenerated...
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...
Blacktail Deer Creek 1.5 miles above Whiskey Springs. Plate 54a (September 19, 1928) Fire Group 5: Cool-dry Douglas-fir. Elevation 7,000 ft (2,134 m) The camera faces east-southeast at a point on upper Blacktail Deer Creek approximately 1.5 miles...
Lord, Herbert Watson, 1870-1963 ; Moose ; hunting ; Ravalli County (Mont.)
Bertie Lord sitting on a dead moose, accompanied by his dog, Growler, and a camera on a tripod behind them. Likely in the Bitterroot Mountains, Montana.