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Photo text: 'A burned watershed. The denuded mountain sides of the Big Creek watershed burned in 1920 do not tend to retard the runoff from the melting snow. Spring freshets which sweep the valley deposit silt, gravel, and down timber along the bottoms, causing unforeseen changes in the stream channel.'
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Title:
Flood and watershed damage related to 1910 fire, Big Creek Valley
Photographer:
Swan, K.D.
Date Created (ISO Standard):
1938
Description:
Photo text: 'A burned watershed. The denuded mountain sides of the Big Creek watershed burned in 1920 do not tend to retard the runoff from the melting snow. Spring freshets which sweep the valley deposit silt, gravel, and down timber along the bottoms, causing unforeseen changes in the stream channel.'
Subjects:
big burn flood Big Creek Valley creek national forests fire
Location:
Payette National Forest;Idaho;United States
Latitude:
45.086761
Longitude:
-115.33838
Source Identifier:
NARA10StlPht5
USFS Number:
361709
Type:
image;stillimage
Format:
image/jpeg

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Preferred Citation:
"Flood and watershed damage related to 1910 fire, Big Creek Valley", Archival Idaho Photograph Collection, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/archivalidaho/items/archivalidaho83.html
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Material determined to be in Public Domain based on date of publication. Material made available by the University of Idaho Library. For more information; please contact University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives Department at libspec@uidaho.edu.
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https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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