Playing it safe?
MVF’s Carson and McCain McMurray doing underwater transect work at Osborne Bridge, Henrys Fork. We have just finished three weeks of intense work on the Henrys Fork. Slowed down by two solid weeks of rain, it all came together as we were able to shoot over 4,000 aerial pictures of the Henrys Fork watershed. The [...]
Aerial Photos from the Henrys Fork
We had our first sunny day in the last two weeks here and shot over 200 aerial photos of the midsection of the Ranch. The conditions were great but only for an hour or so. When we arrived, there was a dense low ground fog over the river. As it cleared we launched and started [...]
BAP Take One…
17 June 2009 — Today was the first day testing for our balloon aerial photography (BAP) rig on the Henry’s Fork in Last Chance, Idaho. Although wind, overcast skies, and some scattered showers rattled the camera and reduced photo quality, we still managed to capture a few good shots. The goal of this BAP operation [...]
Henry’s Fork Caldera Restoration update
On May 21, 2009 we participated in a Henry’s Fork Caldera Restoration Meeting where key members of two HFF advisory committees floated the Ranch section of Harriman State Park. The goal of the float was to talk about the history of the Ranch fishing, significant watershed events over the past several decades and available scientific [...]
Spring Runoff almost over…
The Spring runoff continues here on the Snake River. The flows have dropped considerably but we still have one more peak to get thru before the river flows begin to subside. The weather has been cloudy and cool with light rain for the past week thus we have not been able to fly the balloons [...]
Spread Creek Recon
We are up and running full speed here in Jackson Hole for the summer focused on a couple of key conservation projects. Along with the work on the Caldera Project on the Henry’s Fork, we are also exploring and baselining a few critical cutthroat trout spawning creeks in the Snake River ecosystem. One of those [...]
