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The Tillamook burn photographed in 1941. The first fire started in a ravine at the headwaters of Gales Creek on August 14, 1933. The exact cause of the first fire is unknown; however, the common narrative states that as logging crews were wrapping up operations early due to fire hazard restrictions, a steel cable dragging a fallen Douglas fir rubbed against the dry bark of a wind-fallen snag.
The Tillamook State Forest is a 364,000-acre (1,470 km 2) publicly owned forest in the U.S. state of Oregon. Managed by the Oregon Department of Forestry , it is located 40 miles (64 km) west of Portland in the Northern Oregon Coast Range , and spans Washington , Tillamook , Yamhill , and Clatsop counties.
Portions of the range are in the Siuslaw National Forest and Tillamook State Forest, and large sections of the range were burned in forest fires during the 1930s and 1940s as part of the Tillamook Burn. In the forested areas trees include Sitka spruce, western redcedar, Douglas fir, and western hemlock. [7]
The Cedar Creek Fire was a large wildfire in the U.S. state of Oregon that began on August 1, 2022, with a series of lightning strikes in the Willamette National Forest approximately 15 miles (24 km) east of Oakridge. [1] By September 8, the fire had reached over 73,000 acres (30,000 ha). [3] By September 10, it was over 74,000 acres; 30,000 ...
Approximately one million people visit the cheese factory (located north of Tillamook on Highway 101) each year. [11] The lumber industry also is experiencing a comeback from the replanting that followed the Tillamook Burn forest fires of the mid-20th century. The burned remains of some of the trees can still be found in the forests surrounding ...
Helena Wegner. September 11, 2024 at 11:56 AM. Tillamook Forest Center. An 82-year-old hunter was tracking down an elk when he got lost and had to stay the night in an Oregon forest, deputies said ...
The 2020 Oregon wildfire season was the most destructive on record in the state of Oregon. The season is a part of the 2020 Western United States wildfire season. The fires killed at least 11 people, burned more than 1,000,000 acres (400,000 ha) of land, and destroyed thousands of homes. [2]
The Bootleg Fire, named after the nearby Bootleg Spring, was a large wildfire that started near Beatty, Oregon, on July 6, 2021. Before being fully contained on August 15, 2021, it had burned 413,765 acres (167,445 ha; 1,674 km 2 ; 647 sq mi). [ 2 ]