[Iesaf_palouse] October SAF meeting Overview

[Mark Kimsey]

Palouse-Snake River SAF Chapter October Meeting

 

TITLE:  The Pulaski Project by Ron Roizen

 

SUMMARY: 

 

The Nicholson mine (AKA Pulaski Tunnel) lies two miles southeast of Moon
Pass Road along the West Fork of Placer Creek.  There is an "escape
trail" that linked the mine site to Moon Pass Road, which was once also
a trail. The mine and the trail are historic venues because they
provided "Big Ed" Pulaski and his firefighting crew a refuge and an
escape route in the midst of the "Big Blowup" -- the great 1910 fire
that engulfed much of Northern Idaho and Western Montana.  Yet both the
trail and the mine site, in 2000, had become lost in overgrowth,
windfall, and inattention for almost a century.  The Pulaski Project
aimed to recapture these venues and develop them into fitting
historical, educational, and recreational resources for northern Idaho
and the Northwest.  Even before the trail-and-mine project truly got its
feet on the ground, the board of directors expanded its aims to include
a substantial interpretive center to be associated with the trail as
well as a number of other pursuits.  Now, in the fall of 2007, the trail
has been open to the public for more than two years -- with its seven
bridges, dozen porcelain historical signs, and other accoutrements.  And
yet the trail is still not fully completed.  For example, the trail's
destination, the mine portal, and the trail's outlook to the mine portal
still require re-creation and development.  Along the way, a number of
the original goals of the project have been more or less abandoned, and
some new goals have also come along and now occupy our attentions.

 

WEBSITE: 

http://www.pulaski-project.org/

http://www.idahoforests.org/pulanski.htm

 

WHEN: Wednesday, October 3rd

 

         Social @ 5:30 pm

         Business Meeting @ 6:00 pm

         Dinner @ 6:30 pm

         Presentation @ 7:00 pm

 

WHERE: The Sandpiper Grill - Moscow, ID (Next to America's Best Value
Inn - formerly the Mark IV)

 

MENU: Menu Selection

 

COST: Variable

 

RSVP: Please RSVP to Mark Kimsey at 208-885-7520 or mkimsey at uidaho.edu
by Monday, October 1st.

 

FORESTER'S RAFFLE: $1/ticket or $5 for 6 tickets

 

*Note: Each Palouse-Snake River Chapter meeting is worth 1 CFE credit.

 

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Mark Kimsey

Research Scientist

Intermountain Forest Tree Nutrition Cooperative

College of Natural Resources

University of Idaho

Moscow, ID 83844-1133

PH: 208-885-7520

FAX: 208-885-7442

CELL: 509-330-0640

 

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