Lost River Field Station

The Lost River Field Station is a fully outfitted facility (showers, toilets, kitchen, computers, etc) operated by our own Idaho State University Department of Geosciences. It is located north of Mackay, Idaho, at the base of the Big Lost River Mountains, just beside Mt Borah and the Borah Fault Scarp. This is where we teach field camp and base field trips out of.

It is an ideal site to base studies of fault scarp evolution, glacial landform formation and degradation, tectonic geomorphology, bedrock and alluvial river form and function and a slew of other great questions regarding high mountain topographic evolution.

 

 

Taylor Ranch in Big Creek

Taylor Ranch is a remote wilderness research station owned and operated by the University of Idaho. It is located within the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness, along Big Creek, a tributary to the Middle Fork of the Salmon River.

It is a great site to initiate geomorphic studies of bedrock river incision and morphology, sediment transport, hillslope stability, knickpoint propagation, valley-blocking landslides, feedbacks between geomorphic and biological systems and a host of other subjects.

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updated: spring 2008