The premier is taking place in Idaho Falls and Wood will be on hand as part of the launch. This project began in 2018, and ultimately restored just under a mile of the Yankee Fork to more closely resemble its pre-mining condition.Īlso make sure to and be on the lookout for the August 12 th world premiere of Ocean to Idaho, a Tight Line Media film by Kris Millgate featuring Wood explaining habitat restoration in the Yankee Fork. But then Stanley had some country singer play during the fireworks, and part of the dredge collapsed, so we stopped going. Each of the 71 buckets that make up the mouth of the digging chain can hold 8 cubic feet and themselves weigh a little over a ton. To that end, last year we completed the final phase of restoration work at the Bonanza City project site. We used to tour the dredge every year (rented out the bonanza campground for the 4th of July). The dredge weighs 988 tons and is 112 feet long by 54 feet wide by 64 feet high. The dredge is also eligible under Criterion C, in the area of Engineering, as an unusual example of placer mining technology. The goal of TU’s work was to restore the natural processes so those building blocks could rebuild and maintain complex and healthy habitat. From 19401953, dredge operations extracted over 1.02 million worth of gold from the Yankee Fork of the Salmon River in Idaho, which employed hundreds of workers and supported the small local communities.
That flume constantly flushed gravel, wood and other important building blocks of healthy habitat out of the system. The Yankee Fork historically supported robust populations of salmon, steelhead and trout, but mining - and the intensive timber harvest that accompanied it - reduced what once was a complex, meandering river into a virtual flume. Yankee Fork Side Channel Habitat Improvement. She works with a diverse group of partners to rebuild the Yankee Fork Valley, and the river that runs through it. Enter Trout Unlimited and Project Manager Cassi Wood. It is close to the historical Yankee Fork Gold Dredge, Bonanza, Custer Mining Town, and the Salmon River. Rivers are resilient, to be sure, but in places like the Yankee Fork the magnitude of disturbance was so great that the natural processes that created that resiliency were no longer able to function. Almost every summer and winter activity you can think of is available on the Yankee Fork.
#YANKEE FORK DREDGE FREE#
Be sure to visit the old Yankee Fork Dredge. Free and open company data on Idaho (US) company YANKEE FORK GOLD DREDGE ASSOCIATION, INC. Good fishing in Mill Creek, Jordan Creek and the Yankee Fork itself.
Amazing history in the ghost towns of Custer and Bonanza. Sign Up for Auto-Renewal & Sustainer Giving One of my favorite stops along this section of the Salmon.
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