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South Fork Payette River Road
Forest Service crews from the Payette and Boise National Forests took four years to complete the South Fork Payette River Road (Banks-Lowman Road). They worked during the winter in cold, miserable conditions, living in tent camps as they approached Lowman.
Earl Templeton, who worked for two years on the project, spent the winter of 1916-17 in a tent camp at the mouth of the Deadwood River with Elmer Ross and nine other men. After a long day's work their evenings were devoted to study. The Forest Service required the men to take correspondence courses to improve their education on subjects related to their jobs.
