Snake River Valley agricultureIdaho: Glynn's Ferry, Three
Island Crossing State Park June 7, 2007. We are staying at Three Island Crossing State Park located in the town of Glynn's Ferry, $4 entry fee plus $21 for RV site with water & elect. A very nice campground and it is full. Mature trees with good shade and green grass. We are in the small Oregon Trail community of Glynn's Ferry staying in Three Island Crossing State Park campground. Everything about this area reeks of history, specifically Oregon Trail history. Specifically, that chapter in America's history when hearty pioneers left the eastern United States and headed west searching for a better opportunity.
Water makes agriculture possible in the Sake River Valley
A variety of beans and alfalfa are now grown in the valley on the south side of the Snake River. Irrigation makes the desert bloom in this valley.
Agriculture like this bean field in the Snake River Valley depends on an abundant water supply
I think this is a field of beans, what kind I am not sure.
Desert irrigation works an agricultural wonder here in the Snake River Valley
It is totally amazing what irrigation can produce in a desert that only receives 7" of rain per year.
Snake River Valley agriculture under intense irrigation
By now you can tell we are on the south side of the Snake River and headed to an overlook on the bluff overlooking the Three Island Crossing. The overlook will be on that bluff ahead. To get there we are driving through some beautiful Snake River Valley agriculture.
Agriculture in the Snake River Valley produced this stash of alfalfa hay
Alfalfa is grown in the valley as well as beans.
Snake River Valley agriculture as viewed from bluff overlooking Three Island Crossing
From the bluff we are looking at the valley on the south side of the Snake River and the first of three islands that emigrants crossed to other side on the Oregon Trail.
Snake River Valley agriculture surrounds Three Island Crossing of the Snake River on the Oregon Trail
In this picture you can see all three islands. Emigrants crossed to the first island then the second island before moving to the upstream end of the second island and striking out for the north side of the Snake River. The third island was not used in the crossing.
Snake River Valley agriculture and Three Island Crossing on the Oregon Trail
This is a picture of the second and third island and the north side of the Snake River in the distance.
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