Cliff Marcus

SCS (Soil Conservation Service) Collection

August 1958

This late summer view looks across fields of hay and grain on the Leonard Moffitt farm to the white structures of the Estelle farmstead in far middle ground. Chugach Mountains at the east end of the valley claim the background. A thick patch of birch and cottonwood trees intrudes into the field at left foreground and a large area of mixed spruce and deciduous forest in middle ground defines the far side of the fields at right. In immediate foreground and in a wide strip leading away from the camera are windrows of cut grain, identified as a mix of oats and peas intending to be converted into silage.

Near Palmer, Alaska

Black & White Paper Print, 4" x 5"

Farm#13x-SCS-2