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View of Boulder Nursery, Helena National Forest, Montana Item Info

D.S. Olson, first Nurseryman at Savenac Nursery, wrote in his brief history of Savenac, that the Boulder Nursery (to serve the Helena forest, along with one at Trapper Creek to serve the Bitterroot and another at Camp Crook to serve the Dakota National Forest), were established in 1908. These nurseries were maintained by a district ranger and known as ranger nurseries. Boulder and the other ranger nurseries were abandoned in 1916. Back of photo reads: "View of Boulder Nursery, Helena National Forest, Montana."
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Title:
View of Boulder Nursery, Helena National Forest, Montana
Date Created (ISO Standard):
1911
Approximated Date:
Yes
Description:
D.S. Olson, first Nurseryman at Savenac Nursery, wrote in his brief history of Savenac, that the Boulder Nursery (to serve the Helena forest, along with one at Trapper Creek to serve the Bitterroot and another at Camp Crook to serve the Dakota National Forest), were established in 1908. These nurseries were maintained by a district ranger and known as ranger nurseries. Boulder and the other ranger nurseries were abandoned in 1916. Back of photo reads: "View of Boulder Nursery, Helena National Forest, Montana."
Location:
Jefferson County, Montana
Features:
Helena National Forest Boulder Nursery
Moscow Number:
1010
Forest Service Number:
Unk.
Source:
The sources for the photos in this collection were as follows: Priest River Experimental Forest, Moscow Foresty Sciences Lab, USDA-Forest Service Region 1 archive, University of Montana Library Gisborne Collection, and Ms. Susan Marsh
Source Identifier:
Boulder01
Type:
Image;StillImage
Format:
image/jpeg

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Citation:
"View of Boulder Nursery, Helena National Forest, Montana", Experimental Forest and Savenac Nursery Archive, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/expforest/items/expforsav199.html
Rights
Rights:
Material produced by the United States Forest Service and is in Public Domain. For more information, please contact University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives Department at libspec@uidaho.edu.
Standardized Rights:
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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