View of the Bighorn Crags and the Soldier Bar airstrip - c.1980 and 2019

The entirety of this repeat photograph pair shows part of the traditional homeland of the Sheepeater Indians, including what is now known as the Soldier Bar airstrip, the Middle Fork of the Salmon River drainage, Big Creek drainage, and Bighorn Crags. A mosaic of fire scarIndigenous landscape perspectives value fire. “And so they would look at the land after fires, or even use fire specifically to say, ‘Okay, this is where we want to go. From the fires that we set these years we know it’s going to be that these plants are ready for us to come over there and start managing.’” “And so you sort of start mapping out the year and how you’re going to move across the land of a season to start to gather food. And so these sorts of pictures sort of make me think that way - very broadly - about how you plan out the year, and then specifically why you’re going to plan it that way.” ((SM)) fire scars, Indigenous perspectives on landscape use

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

Latitude & Longitude: 45.1101, -114.8288