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Soil pedestals formed in sandy loam. Neets Bay.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: hydrology
water conservation, soil conservation and erosion
watershed management
studies of infiltration, run-off and water erosion:effects of forestry practices (polluted water)
Location: Alaska; Revillagigedo Island; Neets Bay
Description: Soil pedestals formed in sandy loam. Neets Bay.
Date: 7/1962

Taken in 12 - mi. gravel quarry. Note the clay-silt deposit. Photo point: 71.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: hydrology
water conservation, soil conservation and erosion
watershed management
studies of infiltration, run-off and water erosion:effects of forestry practices (polluted water)
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Twelvemile Arm
Description: Taken in 12 - mi. gravel quarry. Note the clay-silt deposit. Photo point: 71.
Date: 9/30/1960

Taken in 12 - mi. gravel quarry. View tries to show the depth (3-4") of muck deposited. Photo point: 71.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: hydrology
water conservation, soil conservation and erosion
watershed management
studies of infiltration, run-off and water erosion:effects of forestry practices (polluted water)
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Twelvemile Arm
Description: Taken in 12 - mi. gravel quarry. View tries to show the depth (3-4") of muck deposited. Photo point: 71.
Date: 9/30/1960

Taken in 12 - mi. gravel quarry at a dry time. Note 2-3" of silt-clay deposits. Photo point: 71.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: hydrology
water conservation, soil conservation and erosion
watershed management
studies of infiltration, run-off and water erosion:effects of forestry practices (polluted water)
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Twelvemile Arm
Description: Taken in 12 - mi. gravel quarry at a dry time. Note 2-3" of silt-clay deposits. Photo point: 71.
Date: 9/30/1960

This photo was made from a 4 x 5 neg. taken from an enlarged 35 mm color slide.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: hydrology
water conservation, soil conservation and erosion
watershed management
studies of infiltration, run-off and water erosion:effects of forestry practices (polluted water)
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island
Description: This photo was made from a 4 x 5 neg. taken from an enlarged 35 mm color slide.
Date: summer, 1960

Harris River, Spur 241.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: hydrology
water conservation, soil conservation and erosion
watershed management
studies of infiltration, run-off and water erosion:effects of forestry practices (polluted water)
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Harris River
Description: Harris River, Spur 241.
Date: 9/1/1959

Harris River, Spur 241: creek diverted into borrow pit. Stream first cat-logged, then gravel removed and creek diverted; then creek diverted back to nearly original location.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: hydrology
water conservation, soil conservation and erosion
watershed management
studies of infiltration, run-off and water erosion:effects of forestry practices (polluted water)
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Harris River
Description: Harris River, Spur 241: creek diverted into borrow pit. Stream first cat-logged, then gravel removed and creek diverted; then creek diverted back to nearly original location.
Date: 9/1/1959

Harris River, Spur 241:  view up creek.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: hydrology
water conservation, soil conservation and erosion
watershed management
studies of infiltration, run-off and water erosion:effects of forestry practices (polluted water)
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Harris River
Description: Harris River, Spur 241: view up creek.
Date: 9/1/1959

Harris River, Spur 241 - loading gravel from old creek bed.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: hydrology
water conservation, soil conservation and erosion
watershed management
studies of infiltration, run-off and water erosion:effects of forestry practices (polluted water)
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Harris River
Description: Harris River, Spur 241 - loading gravel from old creek bed.
Date: 8/17/1959

Harris River, Spur 241: view downstream toward Spur 241.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: hydrology
water conservation, soil conservation and erosion
watershed management
studies of infiltration, run-off and water erosion:effects of forestry practices (polluted water)
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Harris River
Description: Harris River, Spur 241: view downstream toward Spur 241.
Date: 8/17/1959

Harris River, Spur 241: view of re-routed stream above gravel removal area.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: hydrology
water conservation, soil conservation and erosion
watershed management
studies of infiltration, run-off and water erosion:effects of forestry practices (polluted water)
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Harris River
Description: Harris River, Spur 241: view of re-routed stream above gravel removal area.
Date: 8/17/1959

Harris River, Spur 241: view up re-routed stream bed showing gravel removal operation.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: hydrology
water conservation, soil conservation and erosion
watershed management
studies of infiltration, run-off and water erosion:effects of forestry practices (polluted water)
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Harris River
Description: Harris River, Spur 241: view up re-routed stream bed showing gravel removal operation.
Date: 8/17/1959

Cat logging in creek, Spur 241. Plugged culvert allowed pool to form on road. Siltation on slash below road.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: hydrology
water conservation, soil conservation and erosion
watershed management
studies of infiltration, run-off and water erosion:effects of forestry practices (polluted water)
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Harris River
Description: Cat logging in creek, Spur 241. Plugged culvert allowed pool to form on road. Siltation on slash below road.
Date: 7/2/1959

Harris River: cat logging in creek, Spur 241. Plugged culvert allowed pool to form on road. Siltation on slash below road.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: hydrology
water conservation, soil conservation and erosion
watershed management
studies of infiltration, run-off and water erosion:effects of forestry practices (polluted water)
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Harris River
Description: Harris River: cat logging in creek, Spur 241. Plugged culvert allowed pool to form on road. Siltation on slash below road.
Date: 7/2/1959

Harris River: cat logging in creek, Spur 241. Plugged culvert allowed pool to form on road. Siltation on slash below road.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: hydrology
water conservation, soil conservation and erosion
watershed management
studies of infiltration, run-off and water erosion:effects of forestry practices (polluted water)
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Harris River
Description: Harris River: cat logging in creek, Spur 241. Plugged culvert allowed pool to form on road. Siltation on slash below road.
Date: 7/2/1959

Harris River: cat logging in creek, Spur 241. Plugged culvert allowed pool to form on road. Siltation on slash below road.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: hydrology
water conservation, soil conservation and erosion
watershed management
studies of infiltration, run-off and water erosion:effects of forestry practices (polluted water)
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Harris River
Description: Harris River: cat logging in creek, Spur 241. Plugged culvert allowed pool to form on road. Siltation on slash below road.
Date: 7/2/1959

Harris River: cat logging in creek, Spur 241. Plugged culvert allowed pool to form on road. Siltation on slash below road.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: hydrology
water conservation, soil conservation and erosion
watershed management
studies of infiltration, run-off and water erosion:effects of forestry practices (polluted water)
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Harris River
Description: Harris River: cat logging in creek, Spur 241. Plugged culvert allowed pool to form on road. Siltation on slash below road.
Date: 7/2/1959

Freshet at 1/2 mile from KPC camp on road 100. Water entering culvert.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: hydrology
water conservation, soil conservation and erosion
watershed management
studies of infiltration, run-off and water erosion:effects of forestry practices (polluted water)
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Maybeso Valley
Description: Freshet at 1/2 mile from KPC camp on road 100. Water entering culvert.
Date: 7/2/1959

Little Jim Logging Company, 12-mile Arm. Logging road on north side of Little Jim Creek. Note gravel washing  into stream bottom.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: hydrology
water conservation, soil conservation and erosion
watershed management
studies of infiltration, run-off and water erosion:effects of forestry practices (polluted water)
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Twelvemile Arm
Description: Little Jim Logging Company, 12-mile Arm. Logging road on north side of Little Jim Creek. Note gravel washing into stream bottom.
Date: 6/25/1958

Little Jim Logging Company, 12-mile Arm. Note gravel washing out of road & into stream bed.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: hydrology
water conservation, soil conservation and erosion
watershed management
studies of infiltration, run-off and water erosion:effects of forestry practices (polluted water)
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Twelvemile Arm
Description: Little Jim Logging Company, 12-mile Arm. Note gravel washing out of road & into stream bed.
Date: 6/25/1958

This creek bed has been used as a cat road for hauling timber. View downstream.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: hydrology
water conservation, soil conservation and erosion
watershed management
studies of infiltration, run-off and water erosion:effects of forestry practices (polluted water)
Location: Alaska; Helm Bay; Helm Creek
Description: This creek bed has been used as a cat road for hauling timber. View downstream.
Date: 7/12/1957

Looking upstream from location of previous photo. Note fine stand of alder that followed logging.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: hydrology
water conservation, soil conservation and erosion
watershed management
studies of infiltration, run-off and water erosion:effects of forestry practices (polluted water)
Location: Alaska; Helm Bay; Helm Creek
Description: Looking upstream from location of previous photo. Note fine stand of alder that followed logging.
Date: 7/12/1957

Note active sluffing of dissected slope at right-center occurring as a result of soft shale bedrock overlain by granite cliffs (discernable at top of photo).
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: hydrology
water conservation, soil conservation and erosion
watershed management
studies of infiltration, run-off and water erosion:effects of forestry practices (polluted water)
Location: Alaska; Revillagigedo Island; Traitors Cove
Description: Note active sluffing of dissected slope at right-center occurring as a result of soft shale bedrock overlain by granite cliffs (discernable at top of photo).
Date: 7/11/1957

Closeup of actively eroding surface. Mat of soil holding stumps & roots has given way on steep unstable slope. Note debris choked water course. No evidence that this material was washing down slope.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: hydrology
water conservation, soil conservation and erosion
watershed management
studies of infiltration, run-off and water erosion:effects of forestry practices (polluted water)
Location: Alaska; Revillagigedo Island; Traitors Cove
Description: Closeup of actively eroding surface. Mat of soil holding stumps & roots has given way on steep unstable slope. Note debris choked water course. No evidence that this material was washing down slope.
Date: 7/11/1957

Creek cutting under bridge on road #200.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: hydrology
water conservation, soil conservation and erosion
watershed management
studies of infiltration, run-off and water erosion:effects of forestry practices (polluted water)
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Maybeso Valley; Halfmile Creek
Description: Creek cutting under bridge on road #200.
Date: 10/25/1956

Skid trail becoming a water course. Area logged 1953 below junction of main roads #100 & #200.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: hydrology
water conservation, soil conservation and erosion
watershed management
studies of infiltration, run-off and water erosion:effects of forestry practices (polluted water)
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island
Description: Skid trail becoming a water course. Area logged 1953 below junction of main roads #100 & #200.
Date: 10/1956

Washing gravel in 1/2 mile creek.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: hydrology
water conservation, soil conservation and erosion
watershed management
studies of infiltration, run-off and water erosion:effects of forestry practices (polluted water)
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Maybeso Valley; Halfmile Creek
Description: Washing gravel in 1/2 mile creek.
Date: 1956

Maybeso about 4 mile. Note damming by recent debris added by log jam. [Date estimated.]
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: hydrology
water conservation, soil conservation and erosion
watershed management
studies of infiltration, run-off and water erosion:effects of forestry practices (polluted water)
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Maybeso Valley
Description: Maybeso about 4 mile. Note damming by recent debris added by log jam. [Date estimated.]
Date: 1956

Note road & mud & silt that will wash out in fall floods. Can't hurt this non-fish stream, but good example of potential erosion. For forestry, erosion probably beneficial if it promotes drainage.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: hydrology
water conservation, soil conservation and erosion
watershed management
studies of infiltration, run-off and water erosion:effects of forestry practices (polluted water)
Location: Alaska; McCarty Cove
Description: Note road & mud & silt that will wash out in fall floods. Can't hurt this non-fish stream, but good example of potential erosion. For forestry, erosion probably beneficial if it promotes drainage.
Date: 8/17/1950

Lots of clay in this bank-potential silt for stream. Note muddy road. Will flush out this fall.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: hydrology
water conservation, soil conservation and erosion
watershed management
studies of infiltration, run-off and water erosion:effects of forestry practices (polluted water)
Location: Alaska; McCarty Cove
Description: Lots of clay in this bank-potential silt for stream. Note muddy road. Will flush out this fall.
Date: 8/17/1950

Creek diverted out of road on approach above falls below body of sale area. Flow turned out at center-left. Original choked up channel between diversion channel & road. High water will probably flow down road too. Before diversion, every rain caused serious removal of small materials from road.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: hydrology
water conservation, soil conservation and erosion
watershed management
studies of infiltration, run-off and water erosion:effects of forestry practices (polluted water)
Location: Alaska; McCarty Cove
Description: Creek diverted out of road on approach above falls below body of sale area. Flow turned out at center-left. Original choked up channel between diversion channel & road. High water will probably flow down road too. Before diversion, every rain caused serious removal of small materials from road.
Date: 8/17/1950

Cold deck at cat landing from swing to beach. Erosion begins here. In timber sale area proper.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: hydrology
water conservation, soil conservation and erosion
watershed management
studies of infiltration, run-off and water erosion:effects of forestry practices (polluted water)
Location: Alaska; McCarty Cove
Description: Cold deck at cat landing from swing to beach. Erosion begins here. In timber sale area proper.
Date: 8/17/1950

Cat crossing just below spar pole. This jam may be 50-50 nature & logging. Most of this stream is much coarser gravel than this.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: hydrology
water conservation, soil conservation and erosion
watershed management
studies of infiltration, run-off and water erosion:effects of forestry practices (polluted water)
Location: Alaska; Prince of Wales Island; Calder Bay
Description: Cat crossing just below spar pole. This jam may be 50-50 nature & logging. Most of this stream is much coarser gravel than this.
Date: 8/9/1950

Three Islands sale - Purdy Logging Co. Location of the rock ledge forming upper falls now clear & passable to fish when water is high enough for fish to ascend stream.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: hydrology
water conservation, soil conservation and erosion
watershed management
studies of infiltration, run-off and water erosion:effects of forestry practices (polluted water)
Location: Alaska; Southeast
Description: Three Islands sale - Purdy Logging Co. Location of the rock ledge forming upper falls now clear & passable to fish when water is high enough for fish to ascend stream.
Date: 3/13/1950

Three Islands sale - Purdy Logging Co. Looking downstream from point where cat road leaves the creek. Was location of permanent, impassable log jam. Dam removed during logging thus allowing passage of fish during high water.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: hydrology
water conservation, soil conservation and erosion
watershed management
studies of infiltration, run-off and water erosion:effects of forestry practices (polluted water)
Location: Alaska; Southeast
Description: Three Islands sale - Purdy Logging Co. Looking downstream from point where cat road leaves the creek. Was location of permanent, impassable log jam. Dam removed during logging thus allowing passage of fish during high water.
Date: 3/13/1950

Fish & Wildlife Service Grumman at 3 Islands sale area to Purdy Logging Company. 9-16-48 trip to inspect controversial stream following logging. Trip made by Zach, Archbold & Hadlee.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: hydrology
water conservation, soil conservation and erosion
watershed management
studies of infiltration, run-off and water erosion:effects of forestry practices (polluted water)
Location: Alaska; Southeast
Description: Fish & Wildlife Service Grumman at 3 Islands sale area to Purdy Logging Company. 9-16-48 trip to inspect controversial stream following logging. Trip made by Zach, Archbold & Hadlee.
Date: 3/13/1950

Three Islands sale area - Purdy Logging Co. Looking into harbor behind breakwater. Tops & limbs in foreground above high tide & not in creek. Stumps & logs at right center were added to Smith's breakwater by logging operator.
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Collection: Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Image Archive
Keywords: hydrology
water conservation, soil conservation and erosion
watershed management
studies of infiltration, run-off and water erosion:effects of forestry practices (polluted water)
Location: Alaska; Southeast
Description: Three Islands sale area - Purdy Logging Co. Looking into harbor behind breakwater. Tops & limbs in foreground above high tide & not in creek. Stumps & logs at right center were added to Smith's breakwater by logging operator.
Date: 3/13/1950