Valley Road Waterwheel

Copyright (c) 1995 by Patricia Mae Young

Valley Road was the first road through Sawtooth Valley. It remains today as in the past --- a rough, meandering and quiet dirt road with mile after mile of wide-angle vistas of the valley floor against a backdrop of peaks with glacier-carved canyons. Today the road provides access to large cattle ranches. The ranches are irrigated by a century old system of canals and ditches. The waterwheels have been added recently to keep Salmon out of the canals, so that they can spawn in the streams and rivers.

Medium: Pastel. Size: 28x36 (in) 62x80 (cm)

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Photograph of the waterwheel and its backdrop.

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