Fort Boise Land Use: 1975-2000 After Fort Boise’s initial transition from military to civilian use, the park continued to grow in order to meet the needs of the community and the environment. The park had become increasingly popular to Boiseans participating in city league and public school sports, and the open field and picnic areas…
Barber Park Harris Ranch 1975-2000 People and nature have been a core concept of what we have been researching and reading about. What is nature in the city, is it the parks scattered across the city, the stream in someone’s backyard, or is it the nature that borders on the outside of the city? These…
As the old maps have shown, the Barber Valley and Harris Ranch area were not considered to be within the Boise City limits. Due to city expansion, these areas were finally considered within the city boarders. As a result of this expansion there was more room for development including more roads to transport people to…
Jace Parker April 3 2015 Environmental Studies 221 Barber Park-Harris Ranch Barber Park- Harris Ranch The land of Barber Park and Harris Ranch experienced a great number of changes between the times of 1950 to 1975. There where problems with the people of Barber Park and Harris Ranch with the development of the Lucky Peak…
Jace Parker 2/25/2015 Environmental Studies 221 Jennifer Stevens Barber Park and Harris Ranch 1900-1950s Nature and the city are two polar opposites that are constantly at war with each other. The ever-expanding needs of humans are growing and what all humans need are land and resources. Yet what are the environmental impacts of developing land,…
In 1973, the Idaho State Penitentiary officially closed and sent its last prisoners to a newer facility. This opened up the possibility for other uses of the surrounding land. Keeping in step with the recreational use, Quarry View Park was built in 1983 on land leased to the city by the state. Quarry View Park…
West Boise land use 1975-2001 Land development and use for Boise’s West End (Pleasanton to Jefferson/27th to the river) underwent very little change from 1975-2000. One reason could be the economic recession that took hold of the U.S. from the late 1970’s to the early 1980’s. Development all but ceased on this parcel and…
Up until the 1960’s, the Boise River and its banks served as a convenient dumping place for trash, industrial waste, raw sewage, and in the case of this parcel, meat factory remnants. The riverbank became seriously damaged after years of using it for waste. Fish were unable to inhabit the polluted streams. Greenbelt advocates of…
On a sunny day you will likely find the trails on the Castle Rock reserve full of people. Runners take flight up and around the hill sides. Mount bikers can be seen crawling up then zipping down the trails. Families with their children walk their dog. On a good day you might even see some…
During the time period of 1975-2000 there was an increase in general knowledge about the environment. Larger amounts of information were made available to the public and allowed citizens to make educated choices about issues pertinent to the environment they live in. Similar to cities all across the nation, Boise residents took measures needed to…
Johnny Whittemore Blog 4 23 April 2015 By now, the parcel of land resting on the Central Bench overlooking downtown Boise between Emerald and Alpine, Roosevelt to Garden, has been nearly entirely settled. A century of technological innovation, immense home building and infrastructure updates has left this area of Boise with its own unique identity.…
Castle Rock Reserve 1975-2000 Castle Rock Parcel is a unique and resilient piece of land tucked at the base of the northeast Boise foothills. The parcel has existed on the periphery of town for decades until urban expansion and the inevitable development of the foothills completely altered the ecology of the hill slope and…
When I was first assigned this parcel of land I assumed its history was just like every other section of Boise, high mountain desert that was irrigated into farming land. It seemed unlikely that the land would be used for anything else, possibly some housing or maybe even cattle ranching. However while looking into the…
Entering into the second half of the twentieth century, the Barber Valley region of Boise was not the same area as it was during the first half. The Barber Valley area including Harris Ranch and Barber Park saw some changes in the occupation and use of land starting in the 1950’s. This is when we…
Barber Park/Harris Ranch Land Use 1975 – Present Within the last few decades the Barber Park and Harris Ranch areas have gone through some big changes in terms of land use and development. From the areas humble beginnings as a small lumber town, it has grown into a large residential, commercial and recreational area. One…
By:Tasha Smagula The West End and this parcel have historically been used industrially. This area was previously occupied by meat packers and asphalt companies. After the passage of the Clean Water Act of 1972, these industrial companies began moving away from the river because of increased regulation of river pollutants. One of these companies to…
Johnny Whittemore 1 March 2015 Environmental Studies 221 Blog 2 My group’s parcel, located on the Bench from Emerald to Alpine, Roosevelt to Garden is an interesting plot of land, largely unlike the rest of Boise. It is made up of nearly entirely residential units. Although most of Boise has experienced tremendous growth insisting of…
Johnny Whittemore Blog 3 4.5.2015 The parcel of land lying between Emerald and Alpine, Roosevelt to Garden saw immense growth in the period between the years 1950-1975. Development increased rapidly as new buildings and establishments started to occupy the land en masse. Since this initial period of growth, the same buildings have continued to be…
At the beginning of the twentieth century, transportation methods across the world dramatically changed. People went from using electric streetcars and railways to get around, to owning their own personal motorized vehicle. The car went from being an expensive toy that was exclusive to the rich, to the standard mode of individual transportation used by…
Before water treatment plants, industrial waste polluted the Boise River. In Boise’s West End, industrial waste pollution was very prominent until cities and the federal government began to notice the harmful effects and pass the Clean Water Act of 1972. Residents began to take pride in their crown jewel and funded the building of municipal…
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Group 2 Water -Blog 3 1950-1975 Jenna Enright Old Boise’s historic district has lacked open running water since The Boise City Canal was buried in 1905 (MacGregor 64). No other open sources of water remains on the parcel of this section of the historic district (3rd to Capital, Myrtle to Grove), that will be discussing…
The period between 1950 and 1975 was an interesting time for the Central Addition, a time of aimlessness for a neighborhood that each day found itself more and more out of place within its own city. This neighborhood saw more change than one would expect during this time of economic cutbacks and expanding city limits,…
During the 1950s into the early 1970s, Boise experienced a lot of growth. With a slight slowdown in population growth in the 1960s, building and expansion continued to be on the forefront. When looking at the Castle Rock region, this area generally stayed out of residential expansion. Mostly due to hill formation that Castle Rock…
For many citizens, the outcropping of rocks known as Castle Rock is a subtle yet beautiful addition to the scenic backdrop of the Boise foothills. The Castle Rock Reserve is a unique piece of Idaho’s history, and has changed throughout its history in many ways. The most significant changes in transportation on this area were…
The 1950’s marked an explosion of growth for suburban America. Post war growth was immense and ever-reaching. The economy was booming – cars, suburban housing, and consumer goods were available to more people than ever before. Young couples were leaving the city apartments and multifamily units, looking to fulfill what was advertised as the “American…
Looking Back on Barber Town, Idaho Statesmen 1953 Moving into the 1950’s the Barber area didn’t have a lot of action because it was still recovering from the mill and old town being there just 20 years prior. 1953 this area was vacant fields where a town thrived and industrial giant use to be. The…
Over the first part of the century, Cottonwood Creek, the main waterway system and water source for irrigation and recharge in the Fort Boise area was under constant stress. With floods that occurred often, and caused mass amounts of damage commercially and personally there was need for something to be done to save the people…
Throughout the 20th century the city of Boise embraced its abundance of natural resources that helped the city mature. Its’ situation near the Boise National Forest, the Boise River and the expansive foothills was no coincidence. The first half of the century saw much development in the downtown core, yet as the city grew it…
In the 1940’s and 50’s, the introduction of cars into cities began changing development drastically. Cars allowed people to live further away from where they worked, and bulldozers allowed people to build on hillsides and other previously unusable plots of land. In Boise, this is when people started really moving into the East End. “Streetcar…
Between 1950 and 1975 there are no major changes in transportation infrastructure evident on the West Boise parcel of land between Pleasanton and Jefferson, where it extends to Quinn’s Pond. There were however, pivotal changes in social awareness in regards to land and river, as well as the quality of neighborhoods. These things all had…
At the beginning of the 1950’s, America was experiencing rapid expansion and growth after WWII. This gave rise to a booming economy and opened the door for many returning G.I.’s to find work in the construction industry among other fields. The West Side Addition in Boise, located between Pleasanton and Jefferson Streets, was an area…
West End, Life 1950-1975 By Trace Blackstone A lot had changed in the last fifty years, for example this area was no longer on the outskirts of the city because Boise had grown to cover more than half of the area. Also with the river moved out of the area more land was available for…
Post war America in the 1950’s was all about family, expanding into the U.S., and suburbia. Expansion and Manifest Destiny had once again made a resurgence in the minds of Americans and Boise was not an exception. While the edges of Boise grew new suburbs with reckless abandon, the downtown area remained relatively unchanged. Within…
After the 9th circuit command shut down the Boise Barracks in 1944, Fort Boise transitioned from military to civilian use, drastically changing the land. The post war economy was booming and suburbs in the surrounding area were growing rapidly. Fort Boise had the potential to be put to use by the city to provide greater…
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