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A more than 3,000-year-old tree juts up from the silty bottom of Clear Lake in Willamette National Forest. The chemical makeup of Clear Lake allows it to live up to its name, with over 100 feet of ...
Clear Lake is circled by Clear Lake Loop Trail, [3] a hike loop made up of Clear Lake Trail and McKenzie River Trail that is 5 miles (8.0 km) long. An accompanying trail guide prepared by Willamette National Forest tells visitors about Clear Lake and the neighboring lava field and forest. [4]
The Willamette National Forest is a National Forest located in the central portion of the Cascade Range of the U.S. state of Oregon. [4] It comprises 1,678,031 acres (6,790.75 km 2). Over 380,000 acres (694 mi 2, 1,540 km 2) are designated wilderness which include seven major mountain peaks.
The McKenzie River originates as the outflow of Clear Lake in the high Cascades of eastern Linn County in the Willamette National Forest. (Clear Lake is fed by Ikenick Creek and Fish Lake Creek, the latter of which flows from Fish Lake. Fish Lake's main tributary is Hackleman Creek, which drains the north side of Browder Ridge east of Tombstone ...
Located within the Willamette National Forest in the McKenzie Ranger District near Santiam Pass, the Sand Mountain Volcanic Field is southwest of Mount Jefferson and northwest of Belknap Crater and Mount Washington. [6] The field borders Clear Lake, the source for the McKenzie River, [7] and lava flows from the field formed a dam that created ...
a mountain lake southeast of Willamette Pass: Olallie Lake: a mountain lake 10 miles (16 km) north of Mount Jefferson Oswego Lake: a natural lake (though artificially enlarged) that is a former channel of the Tualatin River: Owyhee Reservoir: an impoundment of the Owyhee River by Owyhee Dam in Eastern Oregon; Oregon's longest lake (52 miles (84 ...
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 ...
July 16, 2024 at 6:54 PM. A lightning strike that ignited fires on the Middle Fork Ranger District in Willamette National Forest east of Eugene. A red flag warning was issued Tuesday for the ...