Maurice Hornocker and Wilbur Wiles visit Taylor summer 2008. Wilbur accepted his gift from the Mt. Lion Workshop for his contributions to cougar research in the area. |
Toni Ruth, Leslie and Maurice Hornocker,Wilbur Wiles, Jim and Holly Akenson show off Wilbur's gift while visiting Wilbur's home at Big Creek airstrip. |
Intern Kristin Pilcher rides Bat and leads Bird on their trip to Monumental Creek. |
Holly Akenson leads the interns towards west fork of Rush Creek on their way to explore the wolf pack in the Monumental area. |
Delmar Day, Bleak Wilderness Intern
traveling on the trail to Cabin Creek and on to the cave at Cave Creek.
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Calla Hagle, Bleak Wilderness Intern
practicing her telemetry skills at
Taylor Field Station
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The McCall High School students watch Javan Bauder examine captured research snakes soon to be released. |
The McCall High School Environment Science class visited in May by hiking from Cabin Creek. |
The airstrip flooded over in May. Several visitors landed at Cabin Creek Airstrip and hiked down to Taylor |
Jim Akenson, Mgr. Taylor hikes to the Gorge with the Wilderness Workshop group. |
Wilderness Workshop, a committee of Natural Resources Managers visits Taylor in May. |
The Wilderness Workshop hikes across Big Creek to the Gorge. |
Maurice Hornocker was key-note speaker at the 9th Mt. Lion Workshop in Sun Valley received a lifetime achievement award is shown here with Jim Akenson, co-organizer and moderator at the workshop in May. |
9th Mt. Lion Workshop: Jim and Janet Pope, DeVlieg Foundation, Jim and Holly Akenson, TWRS, Toni Ruth, Selway Institute, Maurice Hornocker, Steve Nadeau, IDFG, and Bruce Ackerman, IDFG. |
IDFG's Screw Trap was installed in Big Creek in February. Rivers flows have caused the removal of the trap until river flows recede. |
The screw trap is operated on a daily basis to PIT-tag and release steelhead trout and Chinook salmon populations. |
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Brian Kennedy, UI F&W Prof. (c), and his Advanced Fish Ecology graduate class snorkeled in Big Creek in March, exploring over-wintering juvenile salmonoids.
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Ben Crosby, ISU Geomorphology Prof. installed an electronic stream gauge under the Big Creek Bridge to provide real-time data on stream flows for a Basin Hydrology research study.
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The Dave Lewis Cabin restoration began the end of April 2008. The cabin will be restored to a 1920's cabin in the wilderness. |
Bill Wallace and Mary Acker inspired the restoration of the Lewis Cabin and as the major donors provided the majority of the funding. |
Ceiling panels were removed to expose a vaulted ceiling with new log support. |
Renovations are being performed by JB Constuction of Grangeville, Idaho |