Preface

Scroll through for a guided introduction written by University of Idaho Fellows Jack Kredell

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The Taylor Wilderness Research Station

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The Big Creek site where Taylor Wilderness Research Station (TWRS) is located has been occupied or utilized in some form by humans for at least 10,000 years. Far from being an area “where man is but a visitor who does not remain”, TWRS is a chapter in a human social drama as rich and dynamic as the “untrammeled” ecological processes of the surrounding Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness.

Ed Krumpe

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describes the geographic features of the Taylor Wilderness Research Station area. Watch Full Video

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The Brand

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The University of Idaho acquired the property from Jess and Dorothy Taylor in 1969, who bought the property from David “Cougar Dave” Lewis in 1935, who had originally designed this livestock brand that is still used today.

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The Landscape

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An appreciation for the site’s capacity to attract and sustain various human geographies alongside such wild and remote terrain is therefore critical to understanding the physical and biological environment of Taylor.

Gary Koehler

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describes how a cougar encounter helped shape his scholarly understanding of natural science. Watch Full Video

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The People

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The verbiage of “wilderness field station” suggests minimal or peripheral social life, yet the site’s longstanding association with human activity—from indigenous peoples, to settlers, and later scientists—has been integral to forming the greater ecological community known simply as ‘Taylor’.

Teresa Cohn

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discusses being a part of the legacy of research at the Taylor Wilderness Research Station. Watch Full Video

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Social and Experiential

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This oral history project explores both the social and ecological dimensions of Taylor Wilderness Research Station through recorded interviews with past and present researchers, teachers, station managers, and students. Interviews focused on uncovering often-ignored social and experiential content behind scientific pursuit, offering a narrative index of social-ecological change within a wilderness environment.

Holly Atkison

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describes the personal impact of experiencing the September 2000 wildfires at the Taylor Wilderness Research Station. Watch Full Video

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The Taylor Wilderness Research Station

Ed Krumpe

The Brand

The Landscape

Gary Koehler

The People

Teresa Cohn

Social and Experiential

Holly Atkison

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A Sense of Place

Watch this mapped excerpt of the Maurice Hornocker interview, where he describes a four day search with fellow researcher Wilbur Wiles, looking for his favorite dog Little Red in cougar country throughout the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness that surrounds the Taylor Wilderness Research Station.

Watch the full video or explore the space on Google Earth.
Description

The Taylor Wilderness Research Station Archive features video interviews, archival documents, artifacts, research outputs, and other photographs and ephemera collected from those who have made Taylor the unique and transformative place it's been for over 40 years.

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