Skookum Creek Splash Dam.
This file appears in: Flumes, Chutes and Splash Dams: Logging in the early years

This Splash dam was on Skookum Creek in the Coeur d’Alene National Forest. The creek was dammed creating a pond that logs were dumped into. When needed the gates of the dam were opened sending a cascade of water and logs down the creek bed to the loading area. Courtesy of the Museum of North Idaho.
This file appears in: Flumes, Chutes and Splash Dams: Logging in the early years
Flumes, Chutes and Splash Dams: Logging in the early years
Logging for white pine in north Idaho required a new transportation method to get the logs from the mountain to the mill. Flumes, chutes and splash dams were the solution.