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Title:
Lower hayfield at the Jess Taylor Ranch on Big Creek
Creator:
Creator Unknown
Date:
1954
Source:
Payette National Forest Heritage Program, Payette National Forest
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Title:
Lower hayfield on the Taylor Wilderness Research Station property
Creator:
Micaela Petrini
Date:
2019-05-31
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Lower hayfield on the Taylor Wilderness Research Station property - 1954 and 2019

When using horses and mules to pack supplies and travel throughout the area was commonplace, the animals couldn’t always be let out to roam and graze. Aside from the grasses available in their pastures, the stock was sustained by hay. Jess and Dorothy Taylor, shown in the historical photograph here, stand in front of a massive pile of cut hay in the lower pasture on Taylor Wilderness Research Station property, back when it was the Taylor Ranch. Driving mule teams to cut hay for the stock at Taylor Wilderness Research Station was a practice that persisted well into the second term of scientists and caretakers Jim and Holly Akenson.

Location: Taylor Wilderness Research Station Big Creek Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness, ID

Latitude & Longitude: 45.1032, -114.8477

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