Central Oregon: Fort Rock and Cabin Lake
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- There is a very special area where hundreds of shrub-steppe obligate species and Ponderosa Pine Forest obligate species gather. This little-known and unique location is called Cabin Lake and offers incredible wildlife viewing. After filming great numbers of wildlife at Cabin Lake we explore a unique geological feature located in Central Oregon called Fort Rock.
We absolutely love that area! Fantastic video and editing, you got a new subscriber
Awesome! Thank you!
Thank you for providing water to those wild creatures who depend on it. You're saving hundreds of little critters from a horrible death.
Great vidoeo! So Oregon.Very Educational! More Vidoes PLEASE!
Thanks for the comments! Mike and I are planning a trip this spring for a special episode.
Absolutely beautiful!
Thanks so much!
I worked at the USFS Cabin Lake GS in the early 70s. View out my window looked right at Fort Rock. When I moved there, I called a friend of mine and told him where I was and jokingly told him he ought to bring his ski boat up for a cruise on the lake. Two weeks later he showed up, towing that boat. OOPS!!
That is hilarious! 😂
If you ever need a volunteer to stock water, I would jump at the chance
My paternal grandparents homesteaded a piece of land halfway between Silver Lake and Fort Rock at the turn of the last century. Grandpa would work it on the weekends and worked in a brickyard in Bend during the week. Grandpa joked that he raised rocks and rattlesnakes. In the 60s and 70s that is where we had our yearly family reunions. The family owned it until a cousin sold it around 30 years ago. 😡
I grew up in Central Oregon whenever people pass away everybody that you've never seen for years comes out of the woodwork to try to find the guns in the silverware and jewelry and then it's a race to sell the property
A lot of tough folks worked like dogs out in that desert area to survive. I know the area well as we lived in Harney County and went to high school in Burns.
Why the massive juniper removals by government? I notice lots of pine needles under ponderosa.. slowing evaporation.
Hello Jack, The native Western Juniper is the climax plant of the native shrub-steppe desert plant community. It is an essential tree species for many native species of wild animals, including birds, bats, amphibians, reptiles, and insects. In the late 1990s, several Federal agencies decided that junipers were taking up too much water and making it very hard for private cattle to graze on public lands. So the word was put out that the juniper had to be cut down so that cattle would have more grass to graze on.
Government can't leave anything alone. Why, who knows.