Loading ...Equise, you hit the nail on the head with my ranch location. Between deeded property, woodlot, and the adjoining range unit there was more than 12,000 acres which ran from Corduroy Creek on the west, Bulkley River on the south, Blunt mountain on the North, and Moricetown Backroad on the east; ideal because these features made natural boundaries that required no, or very little, fencing. I could turn out my cattle in the spring and they would come home on their own in the fall. The Moricetown backroad ended where where it ran into vast beaver dams which inundated the flat land, making it impossible to penetrate with vehicles from the Moricetown end. The entire range unit was crossed and crisscrossed with creeks off of Blunt Mountain. The two primary ones were Luno Creek and Boulder creek, and of course Corduroy Creek which I’ve mentioned. When I bought the original deeded property that the ranch sprang from over the next 20 years, there was only a very small fire access road into it which wiggled through the trees. The first real obstacle was Corduroy Creek which had no bridge, thus named Corduroy Creek since the only way to cross it was on “corduroy”. Corduroy, if people don’t know, is logs laid side by side across the boggy bottom of creeks or wetlands to support the vehicles where we had the crossing, the method used initially when constructing emergency fire access roads.
Macroman, well thanks to Equise we now know why I was stumped by what natural species of spruce we had on the property. LOL!!! Other tree species were Lodgepole Pine, Yellow Cedar, Balsam Fir, White Birch, Poplar, and Cottonwood.
Well I see the markets are open so I’ll quit for today. Sorry I could not reply to your posts last night. Sometimes there are not enough hours in a day. :o)
Silverngold