2022 Pacific Northwest Preservation Field School

The 2022 Pacific Northwest Preservation Field School was held at the Railroad Ranch, Harriman State Park in Idaho. The Field School is no longer accepting applications for the 2022 Sessions. We hope to see you next year!

Located on the west side of the Grand Teton range in northeast Idaho, Harriman State Park is on the traditional lands and territory of the Shoshone and Bannock peoples. In 1902 Union Pacific Railroad investors established a working cattle ranch and private retreat for the Harriman and Guggenheim families on the site. The Harriman family donated land to the state of Idaho in 1977 as a founding portion of the Idaho State Park system. The ranch is now part of larger 16,000-acre wildlife refuge. The rustic landscape overlooked by Grand Teton peaks and not far from the Yellowstone National Park west entrance, is a mecca for hiking, mountain biking, flyfishing, and horseback riding.

Field School activities were based around the historic Railroad Ranch, featuring twenty-seven surviving buildings including barns, a cook house, granary, and cottages. Seventeen are listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Projects included log rehabilitation, redaubing of log structures, window repair, reglazing, and fabrication as well as condition assessment and landscape survey workshops.

Come join us at the Railroad Ranch for an exciting week of preservation training and education.

The PNWPFS continues to monitor COVID-19 in the U.S. and to take necessary precautions to ensure participants' safety. Current University of Oregon Covid regulations require all Field School participants to either be up to date with COVID-19 vaccines or have a medical or religious exemption. More information can be found here.