I make educational outdoor exploration videos in Oregon. Adventures, geology, hiking, history, wildlife, gold mines, camping, photography, backpacking, snow shoeing, snowboarding, mountain climbing, and anything else that is interesting in our natural world.
I just recently found your channel. Nicely done video on this. I was one of the many fire fighters battling that fire. It was very emotional for me the first time I drove through after the are was reopened. Seeing the devastation after the fact was very humbling. I have spent a lot of time in the McKenzie valley growing up and to see it forever changed from my past memories was difficult.
My wife and I bought a brick ($25) to help build the Centennial walking bridge. Our name was engraved on it but checked years later and the foot traffic deleted the engraving. Our marriage didn't last either so it's fitting. We (my wife more so) knew the Stewarts (Bohemia Lumber) and I'm guessing that explains the name of one of the bridges.
Just FYI/BTW - ‘Stand By Me Day’ is held annually on July 23 in nearby-ish Brownsville, OR (where most of the scenes of “Castle Rock" were filmed). (Cottage Grove (and Lowell and UofO) is where 'Animal House' was filmed too.)
@@MattCookOregon Most people mis-pronounce Row river--so ya got that one right. I used to jump off the train bridge when I was young (I lived 3 houses away from the swinging bridge) I'll be waiting to see what you film next!
@@MattCookOregon Not in Lane, but in Linn, how do you pronounce ‘Shimanek’ Covered Bridge? And you probably already know this; but of the 49 remaining covered bridges in Oregon, Lane County has 20: the most of any county west of the Mississippi River (there’s a good pamphlet you can get from Lane County). You may be interested in the last remaining steel truss covered bridge, down here in SoDoCo, in Milo (visit that one when you visit the Doerner Fir). Thanks for making the high quality videos.
Here's 3 more in Southern Oregon . Sandy creek on Coquille river on hwy 42. Grave creek in Sunny Valley off I5. McKee bridge on Applegate river, upper Applegate road. Thanks for the great video Matt. 😊
@@danielflannery2549 Thanks for the input. I thought it was very fitting for the dessert landscape. It is a very old video and I could make it fit better these days.
Some notes: There appears to be a subspecies or variant S sempervirens, occurring about Sonoma county CA down to the Central coast south of Big Sur (the name of a river). (having planted on right near local forms in the Humboldt Bay area, one can see different growth responses to th eyoung wild ones. I have not read yet of genomic variations relevant) they are adapted to the much warmer weather , all around San Francisco Bay and the coast beyons. Fragmentation is indeed the problem, as massive human exploitation, "development" and even foot and bicycle traffic impacting the ground near tress is a factor. Those red networks just below soil surface, interconnect trees, and certainly, signaling molecules are emitted, just as in other plant species, communicating some advance information . Although there are about five major types of fungi in that Kingdom of life, one does not see the mushroom (basidiomycetes), unlike Doug Firs or Sitka Spruce. Readers will have to search what fungi are associated with redwood roots - since there are over 3000 species of fungi here, it is highly likely that some are commensal or mutualists with redwoods, although as you can tell from redwood ages, no strongly parasitic species are at all likely. Some of the hugest trees are located close to the bottoms of valleys next to water, . It may be that the longer shade - indirect sunlight period as well as the typical stimulus of growth toward light have tended to make such groves and individual trees the largest. Here redwoods have been measured to extract a foot - 12" of water from fog. As the climate has changed to hotter and dryer inland, NWS reports exactly what climate model predicted, cooler summers for the Northern CA and SW Oregon coast. It was a cooler summer than commonly experienced here, and will continue to be so, as air , wind moves from cool ocean to hot land. A Seattle group has for some years been selecting seeds from the largest trees to plant up around Puget Sound. Because of the fact that Redwoods reach up and collect fog droplets, as well as calming the winds (it's QUITE peaceful in a redwood forest, and much drier than the rainstorms and wind in open areas), redwoods won't escape" or become invasive species there. I note tha5t Seattle is hotter and sunnier than we are from Chetko through western coastal Mendocino county. Jus tyesterday morning when most logging trucks are rushing on US 101, i notice again that the cut trees are tinier than ever. Most look like doug fir, but of course it is USDA Forest Service and the corruptly obtained (in the 1800s. a long story which I won't repeat right now) private land. Red Emmerson of Redding CA is the LARGEST landowner in the United States. He himself is in his 90s and still involved in cutting forests from Sierra Nevadas to Cascades and redwood country, although there are other redwood killers for profit. Most of the "knowledge" about thinning or clearing biomass from forest floors to prevent fire is FALSE. Large forest expanses are about 15-20F COOLER in summer, and near that much warmer in winter, and only cleared areas ever get into the 70F or higher range when wildfire can take hold. When temperatures remain below 60F, you will find that evaporation is minimal. Forests stay WET. cut areas and ecotones, the border of big forest and open treeless land are hot. This is where fires start, whether the largely arson/accident of humans playing with fire start over 85% of all fires.
The Oregon Hell Hole, located in the highlands above the North Fork of the Middle Fork of the Willamette River. This geological curiosity is a 200 ft deep rift in the forest floor, deep enough to hold a 20 story building and create a subterranean climate at least 20 degrees cooler than summer temperatures above...google says
How is Douglas Fir easier to manage? Redwood is easy to grow and will grow back from the stump. D.Fir dies when cut. Plus Coast Redwood will self correct if the central leader is broken while D. Fir will develop many competing leaders causing the top of the tree to bush out.
we are so lucky to have 2 giant coast redwoods across the street from our house here in south salem. i think i will step outside now and admire them again! thanks matt.
@@maszaan7024 No but I read about it when researching for this. Seems cool. I don't get to Portland area too often. I keep meaning to since videos around there would be popular.
Well. Crazy Evil Woke nut cases and Antifa terrorists are torching the forests and High Mountains of the Desert & West for the last 8 years!!! They caught that Looney idiot College professor in N CA few years ago. Caught some Antifa up in N Oregon 3 years ago. Caught someone in San Bernardino County this week!!! And what the Hell is it ? the powers that been spraying our skies for last decade
Great video Matt! I was just down in this area for the first time last spring! I found some small groves up on the forest roads off the Chetco river. Really enjoyed your commentary on this one. I always learn so much from your videos!
Great video. Thank you. I think that there can be a balance between man's use of the environment and conservation. Both are needed without skewing heavily to one side or the other. I agree that fire suppression has been a disastrous policy. Again, I love your videos highlighting the beauty of our state.
Superb as always Matt. A few years ago my son and I stumbled on a different (also very small) grove of redwoods along the southern Oregon coast with a short, easy hiking trail. It was nice enough, but this area looks more appealing. Redwood forests have a unique beauty and majesty...it's a shame more of Oregon's redwoods haven't been preserved.
