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.
Photograph of a flooded river with damaged banks, 1938. Fallen trees lie at the bottom of the damage...
Photograph of a view showing the destruction of the May 10, 1950 Willow Creek flood on several homes...
View of Placer Creek in Wallace, Idaho after the ""Big Burn"" forest fire in 1910
Photo text: 'Result of 1910 fires. A view at the lower end of the Big Creek valley. This entire bott...
Photo text: 'Flood damage in Wallace, Idaho April 1938, caused by Placer Creek. The watershed of Pla...
Photo text: 'Flood damage in Wallace, Idaho April 1938, caused by Placer Creek. The watershed of Pla...
Photo text: 'Flood damage in Wallace, Idaho April 1938, caused by Placer Creek. The watershed of Pla...
Photoprint of flood damage resulting from San Gabriel fire, 1924. A pile of branches and twigs is vi...
Photo text: 'On an area where the fire had created such havoc as this planting was out of the questi...
Caption reads: "Fig.3. Near view on middle north slope, Section 8, Deep Creek, showing complete dest...
Caption reads: "Fig. 15. Where the 1910 burn destroyed a young stand which succeeded the 1870 burn, ...
Caption reads: "Fig. 11. Steep lower south aspect on Jordan Creek, Section 16, burned bery hard in 1...
Caption reads: "Fig. 18. Erosion in gully on lower part of north aspect in Sec. 4, Alder Creek, burn...
Excerpt from page 52 of "B.C.'s Inland Empire" by Erskine Burnett associated with this image: Some o...
Photograph of "Water marks following Flood on Ionine October 12, 1954." A few buildings are barely v...
Photograph of a flooded river with damaged banks, 1938. Fallen trees lie at the bottom of the damage...
Photograph of a view showing the destruction of the May 10, 1950 Willow Creek flood on several homes...
View of Placer Creek in Wallace, Idaho after the ""Big Burn"" forest fire in 1910
Photo text: 'Result of 1910 fires. A view at the lower end of the Big Creek valley. This entire bott...
Photo text: 'Flood damage in Wallace, Idaho April 1938, caused by Placer Creek. The watershed of Pla...
Photo text: 'Flood damage in Wallace, Idaho April 1938, caused by Placer Creek. The watershed of Pla...
Photo text: 'Flood damage in Wallace, Idaho April 1938, caused by Placer Creek. The watershed of Pla...
Photoprint of flood damage resulting from San Gabriel fire, 1924. A pile of branches and twigs is vi...
Photo text: 'On an area where the fire had created such havoc as this planting was out of the questi...
Caption reads: "Fig.3. Near view on middle north slope, Section 8, Deep Creek, showing complete dest...
Caption reads: "Fig. 15. Where the 1910 burn destroyed a young stand which succeeded the 1870 burn, ...
Caption reads: "Fig. 11. Steep lower south aspect on Jordan Creek, Section 16, burned bery hard in 1...
Caption reads: "Fig. 18. Erosion in gully on lower part of north aspect in Sec. 4, Alder Creek, burn...
Excerpt from page 52 of "B.C.'s Inland Empire" by Erskine Burnett associated with this image: Some o...
Photograph of "Water marks following Flood on Ionine October 12, 1954." A few buildings are barely v...
Photograph of a flooded river with damaged banks, 1938. Fallen trees lie at the bottom of the damage...
Photograph of a view showing the destruction of the May 10, 1950 Willow Creek flood on several homes...
View of Placer Creek in Wallace, Idaho after the ""Big Burn"" forest fire in 1910