Google Earth now has imagery from 2021. Here is the change to the Eagle Creek area between 2018 and 2021. Some of the difference seems to be color adjustment but there is nevertheless a striking improvement. It is of course visible from the ground but I found the aerial view interesting as well.
Revegitation after the Eagle Creek fire
Re: Revegitation after the Eagle Creek fire
Date OK—brain in question.
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Re: Revegitation after the Eagle Creek fire
How does that make it incorrect? The Labor Day firestorm was in 2020.
In other news, I had no idea that Bald Mountain Ridge was devastated like that. That's crazy. I wonder whether the east wind coming around the north side of Hood was accelerated or something.
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Re: Revegitation after the Eagle Creek fire
I was on McNeil ridge looking towards Yocum Ridge where there was a lot of devastation
On the photo I circled an area in red, where there were a lot of down trees. Elsewhere on the ridge the trees were intact. Not a good picture, you almost have to go there to see it.
It seems like with that storm (the Labor Day storm, not Eagle Creek) there were local areas with much higher wind.
Walking on trails on Mt Hood and Three Sisters, most trails have a normal amount of blowdown, but a few sections were hit really bad, like the Timberline Trail between Muddy Fork and Yocum Ridge (which is where that photo was)
On the photo I circled an area in red, where there were a lot of down trees. Elsewhere on the ridge the trees were intact. Not a good picture, you almost have to go there to see it.
It seems like with that storm (the Labor Day storm, not Eagle Creek) there were local areas with much higher wind.
Walking on trails on Mt Hood and Three Sisters, most trails have a normal amount of blowdown, but a few sections were hit really bad, like the Timberline Trail between Muddy Fork and Yocum Ridge (which is where that photo was)
Re: Revegitation after the Eagle Creek fire
Yikes. That is one big senior moment! Even though I wrote 2021 in my first post and the file names I was thinking 2020 as I was looking around the map. Can't hide the stupid now.adamschneider wrote: ↑October 2nd, 2021, 10:57 pmHow does that make it incorrect? The Labor Day firestorm was in 2020.
Re: Revegitation after the Eagle Creek fire
Plants are far more resilient than we give it credit. I remember when Catherine Creek had a severe fires some years back (the ponderosas on east meadow still have the char marks). I was certain the following year would be a poor grass widow year, but the opposite was true: less grass and brush meant more flowers.
The Falls Fire at Multnomah Falls burned out all of the underbrush back around 1989, but it was only a couple of years we saw the newly exposed landscape before the plants reclaimed their territory.
Sadly what is not resilient is the rock. Heat and sub-freezing temperatures create fissures and that is why trails are slow to reopen. Rolling stones may gather no moss, but they do try to gather up hikers on their way down tot he canyon floor.
The Falls Fire at Multnomah Falls burned out all of the underbrush back around 1989, but it was only a couple of years we saw the newly exposed landscape before the plants reclaimed their territory.
Sadly what is not resilient is the rock. Heat and sub-freezing temperatures create fissures and that is why trails are slow to reopen. Rolling stones may gather no moss, but they do try to gather up hikers on their way down tot he canyon floor.
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Re: Revegitation after the Eagle Creek fire
Went down the canyon a few weeks ago. Much different but full of life.
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Thank you.Nwcanyoning wrote: ↑August 24th, 2022, 9:31 pmWent down the canyon a few weeks ago. Much different but full of life.