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Naional Guard at Taylor Ranch summer before cabin move
Creator:
Jim Akenson
Date:
1989
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Jim Akenson Collection
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Title:
Taylor Wilderness Research Station
Creator:
Micaela Petrini
Date:
2019-06-04
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Looking at the hayfield at Taylor Wilderness Research Station - 1989 and 2019

The Idaho National Guard air division based some fifty guardsmen out of Taylor Wilderness Research Station in the summer of 1989, one year before Jim and Holly Akenson finished their first term as managers. That summer, Jim and Holly had the goal of salvaging a cabin built by Rex Lanham in the 1960s at Cabin Creek. Their original plan to dismantle it, float the logs down Big Creek, and then reassemble what they could quickly manifested into a much bigger operation. In 1990, Jim and Holly drove a mule team six miles upstream from Taylor Wilderness Research Station to Cabin Creek and loaded pieces of the cabin in a stoneboat, a large type of sled used for moving heavy items. The mule team pulled the stoneboat up to the Cabin Creek airstrip, where a Skycrane and a Chinook helicopter waited. The cabin was then flown to Taylor Wilderness Research Station to become the Jim Peek Lab (formerly Lanham Lab).

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

Latitude & Longitude: 45.1044, -114.8511

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