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The Lost Forest Research Natural Area is a designated forest created by the Bureau of Land Management to protect an ancient stand of ponderosa pine in the remote high desert county of northern Lake County, in the south central area of the U.S. state of Oregon. Lost Forest is an isolated area of pine trees separated from the nearest contiguous ...
Stumps of trees at the Neskowin Ghost Forest. The Neskowin Ghost Forest is the remnants of a Sitka spruce forest on the Oregon Coast of the United States. The stumps were likely created when an earthquake of the Cascadia subduction zone abruptly lowered the trees, that were then covered by mud from landslides or debris from a tsunami. [1]
This locally unique water-retentive sub-surface structure has helped the ponderosa pines in nearby Lost Forest Research Natural Area survive in the high-desert environment. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] In 1877, there were still two small seasonal ponds at the Fossil Lake site surrounded by a large dry lakebed.
Currently, Apiary Road is a popular freight route for forest products moving from the Northern Oregon Coast Range to markets in Longview, Washington. [17] Ashwood: 1870 (c.) Jefferson: C [18] [19] Auburn: 1861 1903 Baker: A Site of first gold rush in eastern Oregon. [20] Austin: 1888 1950 Grant: C [21] Bacona: 1897 Washington: A
Lost Lake is a shallow closed-basin lake in the Willamette National Forest [3] 29 kilometres (18 mi) southwest of Mount Jefferson and east of Santiam Junction, Oregon, United States. Geologically, much of the area surrounding the lake is lava bed created during a period of volcanic activity around 1000 BCE in the Cascade Range of Oregon . [ 4 ]
There are listings in all of Oregon's 36 counties. The National Register of Historic Places recognizes buildings, structures, objects, sites, and districts of national, state, or local historic significance across the United States. [1] Out of over 90,000 National Register sites nationwide, [2] Oregon is home to more than 2,000 NRHP listings. [3]
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Other sights in North Lake include the Lost Forest, Crack-in-the-ground, and Hole-in-the-ground [56] Oregon sunstones are found north of Plush. [57] The Oregon sunstone is Oregon's state gemstone. Glass Buttes are high desert mountains in northeastern Lake County named for the large deposits of obsidian found on their slopes.