Jim and Holly Akenson with immobilized wolf. |
Elk herd watching a wolf. |
Bighorn sheep butting heads at Taylor. |
Bighorn ram in cliff habitat. |
Jim describing Taylor Ranch history at a barbecue. |
Holly demonstrating how to set a wolf trap. |
Brian and Kara sharing the excitement of Alice's snorkel tour with Brian. |
Holly, Russ, Katie, Ellly, Mike backpacking mist net. |
Dunce Creek Fire smokejumpers arrive at Taylor. |
Dunce Creek Fire 2006 burns the benches across from Taylor Ranch. |
Katie Miller examines a canyon wren during bat surveys. |
Elly examines a pregnant Townsend's big eared bat. |
Holly packing with mules, Bat and Bird. |
Holly and Jim examine teeth of an immobilized wolf. |
Holly hiking with donors Mary, Bill and Alice. |
Arnold Aviation flying over the DeVlieg cabin on approach. |
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Early July is haying time at Taylor. Jim Akenson drives the mule team, Bat & Bird on the mowing machine while the crew gathers.
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Everyone joins in to help during haying. |
Michael Lance, ISU DeVlieg Undergraduate Research Scholar prepares his sampling equipment to record data for his research on mountain whitefish in Big Creek. |
Dr. Jim Peek, Emeritus Professor UI, packing his stock on the Big Creek trail to Taylor Ranch. Jim is conducting a long-term monitoring study (yearly since 1988) of non-forested plant communities. |
Trevor Johnson, Dean Holecek and Brad Rogers preparing to depart from the field station for a hike to Cabin Creek to do snorkel surveys for juvenile Chinook salmon. |
Dean Holecek, DeVlieg Undergraduate Research Scholar has recorded microhabitat use for 24 individual juvenile Chinook salmon this summer. |
Dr. Kerri Vierling, Asst. Professor UI (in pink) shows students how to erect a mist net to capture American dippers on Cliff Creek in June. She collected preliminary data for proposed research on American dippers. |
Dr. Mazeika Sullivan, Postdoc UI and Dr. Kerri Vierling demonstrate how to collect a blood sample, weigh and band an American dipper. |
Graduate student Kara Cromwell is conducting her Master's project to determine the survival of juvenile Chinook salmon in the Big Creek drainage. Assisted here by Dean Holecek. |
Dr. Brian Kennedy, Asst. Professor UI, with students Brad Rogers and Trevor Johnson as they snorkel Big Creek to develop a bioenergetic model to estimate energy and food intake of juvenile Chinook salmon. |
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Dr. Jim Peek, Emeritus Prof. UI instructs the Wilderness Ecology Enrichment Class about plant communities of the Big Creek canyon. The class is a non-credit course held at the end of May.
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Steve Achord of NOAA Fisheries installed a solar powered fish monitoring system. This joint project between NOAA Fisheries and Taylor Ranch Field Station provides instream antennas to detect PTT tagged fish and real-time data via satellite Internet to monitor fish movements and migration timing.
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Javan Bauder, 2006 DeVlieg Undergraduate Research Scholar with gopher snake. See Javan's research study. |
Rattlesnake recently out of winter hibernation marked during ISU Herpetology Class field trip in May. |
High water in Big Creek at Dunce Creek logjam in mid May. |
Jim Akenson travels through Big Creek Gorge in high water. |
A wolf observed by Holly Akenson along Big Creek in May. |
A chance encounter between Holly on horseback and a wolf traveling the Big Creek trail near Taylor Ranch. |
Dr. Jeff Braatne, Professor UI sets up a survey transect on Cliff Creek for his Stream Ecology Class field trip in April. |
Dr. Jeff Braatne (center) and Stream Ecology students measure water flow between Cliff Creek and the substrate. See Workshops |
Elk feeding at the DeVlieg Cabin in Spring. |
Idaho Fish and Game Ungulate Research Team Visited in April and met with Jim & Holly Akenson to discuss carnivore research. See bighorn sheep in the top background. Jim Akenson (right). |
Taylor Ranch Field Station in the Spring. |
Bighorn sheep at Taylor Ranch drink from Big Creek and lick minerals at the cutbank. |
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Bighorn sheep at Taylor Ranch.
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View from across Big Creek, Spring 2006.
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