A Satellite View Of The Idaho Landscape => Showing Green Mountains At Right East, Shading To Slight Greenish, Baked, Dry, Nearly Lifeless Desert, Which Are West & North of =>
…. The Brownlee Campground, At Red Pinpoint Shown At Lower Right Corner.
……Where Chris Says => ”I Like It Here.”
…….. And, In the Quiet Evening, Chris and the Narrator ” Can Hear A Small Stream Nearby.”
…Click /Satellite Photo Several Times To Largest View. Then If your look closely, the Satellite View shows some of the exact landscape features reported in the first part of the following ZMM Passage =>
“ …. a little sign saying "Brownlee Campground," which appears to be in a draw of the mountains…. We follow a dirt road under trees and past underbrush to some camper’s pull-ins. …. I can hear a small stream nearby.... “ ] (Cont. next).
/\Above/\ Satellite Photo, Also Shows The Landscape Area From Brownlee Dam Reservoir (Upper Right), To Brownlee Campground (At Lower Right), Respectively ~30 & ~18 miles Northwest of Cambridge, ID.
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Be Sure You Have Clicked On /\Above/\ Photo, To Get Largest View, Then Please Notice In The /\ Above /\ Satellite View Photo, The Following =>:
…A) The dramatic effect of Landscape Elevation, As Follows =>
…..1) The Mountainous Regions (Right side of photo) are higher elevation, and thus cool enough to have more rain, making them somewhat green from grass, and various rain run-off-channels, hold more moisture for more green of trees. (This includes The Brownlee Campground, at Lower Right, as you can see.)
…..2) The Mountainous Regions (Left side of photo) are a whole lot lower lolevation and thus hotter, and thus lifeless-barren tan color: This is because any rain quickly runs to the gullies & temporary streams, making them green, but leaving the hillsides & tops, extreme dry & lifeless.
…B) In addition => Take time to study the Green Tree-lined Stream Valleys, mostly running from The Green Mountains (at the right), flowing West toward the Snake River & The Brownlee Dam Reservoir. These green lines of life nicely fit The Rubàiyat Quatrain. =>
…. “With me along the strip of Herbage strown
….That just divides the desert from the sown, .. “
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EXPLANATION:
As you have seen in most photos ever since White Bird Brade, and will see in some of the following Photos, this area of Idaho (with the exception of valley bottoms), is mostly treeless, because of overall low rainfall, and baked dry,
…Thus it is a total surprise that => Here, at The Brownlee Campground, there is a running stream here, and so many large, very green trees, in a dense forest!
… And we see that, the ZMM Narrator is extremely accurate in his descriptions, in the above ZMM Passage, such as =>: "BROWNLEE CAMPGROUND," which appears to be in a draw of the mountains. … under trees and past underbrush …. and draw with small stream,.
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….Forthcoming Photos, will show this treeless, extremely baked dry landscape, region of Idaho. In such areas, it is a surprise to see a running stream here at The Brownlee Campground.
….Much further West, you will see 11 Subsequent Photos, which are in Eastern Oregon, a few of which, in low valleys, show running water!
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Continued From ZMM Passage Above => If Your Look Closely, The Satellite View Shows Some Of The Exact Landscape Features Reported By The ZMM Narrator, Such As Towns, Highways, And, Even The Sign At Entrance To Brownlee Campground, And The Dirt Road Into Brownlee Campground.
… Click Here, And AFTER This Satellite View Comes Up, You Can Additionally =>
…A) Zoom out, and watch upper right till, you see town of New Meadows. It is interesting to see the wide, flat, New Meadows Valley!... THERE, you will see US-95 (ZMM Route), all the way South to Cambridge, ID. THEN, you can pick out Rt-71, and follow it to a Tight-U-Turn-In-the Rt-71 Roadway, where is exactly located the dirt road to Brownlee Campground. NOTE: At max zoom, even the SIGN at the Tight-U-Turn is visible!
…B) PLUS, You Can See 5 Good Photos of Brownlee Campground => After This Link Comes Up, You Should See The Left Panel With A Photo At Upper Left. => Click On the Photo, and a Photo Viewer Will Come Up. Click On the Arrows On the Photo Bottom Center, To Move To The Next Photo.
…C) The LAST 2 Photos Show & Discuss What Remains of a Silver & Copper Ore Smelter Facility that operated here perhaps the late 1800’s, judging from The Style Of The Wooden Construction.
…NOTE: The Blue Link above is where were found the May 2017 Photo (Found On The Side Panel Of A Google Map/Satellite View) Photos, which you will see in Forthcoming Photos.
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