Beachie Creek Fire Hazards

Took a drive in and around the Beachie Creek Fire footprint to look at how hazard tree removal is going.  Some of the timber, of course, is going to the mill, but some of it will be set aside and used in stream restoration projects.

Burnt forest near Elkhorn (above) and Elkhorn Creek (below)

These burnt snags were plucked from the ground from where they were threatening a popular campsite and trailhead.  They'll be used for instream restoration.

At the end of the day, we ran across a private contractor who was supposed to be doing wetland delineations for a private landowner.  But the private landowner never gave the guy a gate key which meant the contractor could have ended up behind a locked gate or saddled with an eight mile hike one way.  I opted to escort the guy past the fire line and to his work site where he had 30 minutes of work to quickly wrap up.  It gave me a great excuse to venture onto a private property parcel that I had never seen before at the confluence of the Molalla River and Table Rock Fork.  You can see what's left of Bee Ranch too.

What's left of Bee Ranch (above and below)

Confluence of Table Rock Fork (left) and Molalla River (right)