Joe Dwyer

SCS (Soil Conservation Service) Collection

February 2, 1967

This winter photo shows a man in foreground, identified as Andrew Linn, standing in a large snowy expanse on snowshoes weighing a sampling tube which has previously been driven vertically into the snow and now contains the snow core which filled it. The extracted tube hangs horizontally on scales attached to a small scrubby spruce tree extending a few feet above the snow. Mr. Linn, dressed in an insulated hooded coat, is bent over looking at the reading on the scale and is holding a notebook in his hand. Scattered spruce forest appears out of focus at the base of a barely visible mountain in background.

Indian Pass Snow course, Ship Creek Watershed

Black & White Paper Print, 4" x 5"

Soil Survey#5xn-SCS