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The Oregon Dunes, near Florence, Oregon, served as an inspiration for the Dune saga. After his novel The Dragon in the Sea was published in 1957, Herbert traveled to Florence, Oregon, at the north end of the Oregon Dunes. Here, the United States Department of Agriculture was attempting to use poverty grasses to stabilize the sand dunes.
In 1957, author Frank Herbert traveled to the Oregon Dunes on a reporting assignment. He wrote on the use of grasses to slow the movement of the dunes, prevent them from spreading, from taking over.
The Oregon Dunes are over 100,000 years old and stretch approximately 40 miles (64 km). The youngest dunes, which are the closest to the ocean, began forming about 7,000 years ago. Studies of individual sand grains show that these sands were carried down from the mountains by the Umpqua, Siuslaw, and other smaller rivers. [4]
Hikers moving onto a dune encroaching on a forest in the Oregon Dunes. In time this may lead to devil's stovepipes in the area. In time this may lead to devil's stovepipes in the area. A devil's stovepipe or decomposition chimney is a hole formed when a tree, that has been buried by an encroaching sand dune , decomposes . [ 1 ]
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The Tahkenitch Landing Site (Smithsonian trinomial: 35DO130) is a prehistoric archeological site located in Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area near Gardiner, Oregon, United States. Stratified remains up to 2 meters (6 ft 7 in) deep show the site has served various functions including shell midden and probably village over a history spanning ...
This is a list of Oregon Encyclopedia articles (first column) as of 2017-06-07 and a possible associated Wikipedia article (second column).. The third, fourth, and fifth columns displays confirmed Wikipedia articles, quality assessment, and whether or not the Oregon Encyclopedia link appears on the Wikipedia article (or its corresponding talk page), respectively.