July 2024 Added: … An Aerial View Of The Snow Covered High Mountains To North Of Lochsa Lodge, Seen Lower Center Tiny & Color, Close By The Curving Lochsa River.
…Access Road, US-12, Can Be Barely Discerned.

Lochsa Lodge, Lochsa River Canyon, ID.
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FROM PREVIOUS PHOTO CONTINUED: THE MOST USEFUL ONLINE RESEARCH RESULTS FOR LOCHSA LODGE => By David Matos.

Links To More About Steve Russell, Who Was Later Owner Of Lochsa Lodge.

… Click Here For A Short Biography Of Steve Russell.
Click Here For Story & Photo => WWII U. S. Army Surplus M29s, Weasel owned by Steve Russell, a tracked vehicle originally used for snow operations, but used by Russell to help with the spruce bark beetle project and logging, in the Lochsa Area.
… Click Here For A Short Biography Of Robert Earl Anderson, Jr, Which Has Photos Of Steve Russell, Some Of Which Are At Lochsa Lodge Facility..
… Click Here For Montana State Library. MONTANA HISTORY PORTAL => “Steve Russell And Weasel At Lolo Pass”.
…This Shows a small image of “Steve Russell And Weasel At Lolo Pass”, With Added Description Of how Russell and Others Used These Old U S Army Tracked Vehicles.

… Click Here For Montana State Library. MONTANA HISTORY PORTAL=> “Swede Cut Sale On The Lochsa”.
…This Shows a small image of the forest near Lolo Pass”, With Added Description Of how Steve Russell, owner of the Lochsa Lodge, and others purchased Spruce Bark Beetle infested trees.

Click Here Click Here For Montana State Library. MONTANA HISTORY PORTAL=> “Steve Russell’s [Huge Tractor Trailer Logging] Truck.”.
…This Shows a small image of the Truck fully loaded with huge long logs, likely purchased Spruce Bark Beetle infested trees. With Added Description =>
…The Lochsa Story Ch 20 Page 326. Steve Russell's truck loaded with spruce logs, Swede Cut Timber Sale, the first advertised commercial National Forest timber sale in the upper Lochsa, August 1953. Credit Bud Moore.
Type: Image photograph
Creator: Moore, Bud, 1917-2010
Date: 1953
Digital Collection: Bud Moore Photographs and Sound Recordings.
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