What Opal Creek Wilderness looks like after the Beachie Creek Fire | Oregon Field Guide
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2021
- A year after the Beachie Creek Fire burned through the Opal Creek Wilderness, the old-growth forest and its crystalline pools are still off-limits to the public.
But in June 2021, an “Oregon Field Guide” crew was granted permission to hike into the area and document what’s left after the fire.
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Seeing such old trees burn breaks my heart
as a former resident of Opal Creek and Jawbone Flats this fire devastated me. George Atiyeh was my first Oregon boss and a true mentor, his death in the fire happened on my birthday. Being hired there was my first Oregon job...
Anyone remember Tincup?
Yes! It will grow again for future generations.
We Love Oregon!
I spent a lot of time exploring that area back in the 70's. I fell in love with the natural beauty of the place. It feels like I lost a dear friend.
the 2020 fires in Oregon were absolutely insane. I live in a burn area now. It was truly a perfect storm of intense wind, super dry hot weather and obvioulsy multiple ignition sources to all the labor day weekend fires. I can really relate to these people with losing so much, and having the land and trees around you completely torched and looking like a bomb went off. Ive never been through something like this before, it was really stressful and also fighting the fire with no help was terrifying. Glad those days are over at least.
Every thing in nature is enduring even after a devastating fire. It’s amazing that some of those older trees survived. We need to protect old trees.
This was one of my favorite places. I'm thankful I got that experience twice but it is heart breaking to see it now.
Opal creek was on my list of places to see. I'm sad for all that was lost in the fires across the state last year and this year. I hope I will get to see Opal creek in the future after the forest has healed.
It truly was one of the most beautiful places
Yes. A lot was lost. Given time things will change and new trees will grow. We need to wait until then. Thank you for your update on this wonderful place.
We likely won’t see it back to how it was in our lifetime
wait?? you got centuries of waiting to do
@@SeanStewart88that's a selfish mentality. Nature is more than one lifetime.
Agreed. It's crazy to me reading so many comments that are so negative about a natural process.
@@U.s-epa I’m just saying we won’t see it like how it was in our lifetime. How is that selfish? I’m very aware that it will grow back eventually.
Those ancient growth trees were truly magnificent….. 1000 years from now, I wonder if any people will here to enjoy the new ones.
This area of the Cascades was and is a very sacred place to me, we were there on the other side of opal lake at Detroit lake the night and morning of that fateful fire. It's like a dream .. that we can't wake up from. May healing come
Saw Detroit and the forest at our roadtrip last September...a special atmosphere.
Just so devastating. Thank you for this video.
Great work. I went here as a kid many times. Wonder when it will open again.
It's a wonderful to see that the new growth is starting already. I hadn't seen any footage or pictures or anything of what the fire is done I talk to people but I personally haven't seen anything. Hopefully it's a lot sooner that we can start visiting these areas again.
Amazing work. Thank you
Been waiting on this, thanks
We appreciate, with true value, when it's lost.
this is my first time seeing what it looks like now.. my heart is broken im a new father and wanted to take my son here... This brings tears to my eyes
For years I wanted to see this place and in 2020 I finally made it. Really sad, but I hope it's decent for the next generation.
Glad I got to explore most of the abandoned mines here before the fires.
I love my Oregon love to explore it 😎🌲🌲🌲
I live near Opal creek. Miss being able to hike the trails. Terrifying fire that year.
I was there the day before it burnt. I loved opal and all of north fork.
wow, I never knew wildfire ravaged that beautiful area! went hiking there several times in the late 90's when lived in Salem. reckon the little mining shacks all gone near entrance
i’ve only got the chance to come here two times in the recent years the trees and bridges are all destroyed and the roads are very unstable. sad to see this beautiful place gone
Nice trees were left standing
Had a 'defensible space' been cleared around the buildings prior to the fire? Everything combustable within 150 yards should have been cleared knowing that forests eventually burn. The one building which survived seems to have been in a clearing.
Is the three pools area still closed?
Mother nature can be cruel, but what she takes she gives back too. We only see the devastation not the rebirth of a wonderful new butterfly, going to be beautiful someday soon thank you ALL stay safe
The last 30 seconds made me click on like. So true. So true.
So sad to see those old buildings gone
all the struggle to save this place.. jesus TCBoyle got it right in Friend of the Earth
seeing our Oregon Forests burn year after year is heartbreaking as the Green State hopefully we remain Green & the habitat, wildlife survive and thrive
Any timeline for when it might reopen?
Ummm, Probably not for many many years plus even if it was opened up, whats the point, The forest is roasted and there isn’t much to see or experience like there once was.
in 500 years
Wish i knew kow to contact the owners.i have a 1880 saw mill minus powerplant that would be great for site like this.
i live about 2 hours north of the 200,000 acre fire and i remember i could smell the smoke and we would wake up in the morning to our cars covered in ass 2 inches thick the you could see if fly through the sky..
Hello. I lived in Salem until I was 26. I hiked the Opal Creek area many times. Fire is devestating. As a long time Forester. I worked 35 years trying to suppress fires.
I am retired now. Looking back. I have a different view. Human caused fires and fire that threaten structures, should be extinguished immediately. Natural, lightning caused fires, well. It's exactly what the term, Natural is.
Agreed!
Isn’t the issue the fact that fires have been suppressed so much in order to appease the timber companies that now we have these infernos that burn fast n fierce?
I used to hike that area from 97-2010… then it - like everything in Oregon became a Zoo… no more solitude…
These days instead of timber companies we have so called “social” media that has turned the natural areas into “bucketlist” commodities
I think what people are really trying to fill is the hole left from both an existential and ontological crisis of meaning….
Old mining places like this would bring sawmill in..the lumber would shore up mine and build housing and anything else
I just want pass through and see the mines in the area.
Unreal
Two words come to mind...Paradise lost. One can only imagine how the "Indians" felt as their lands were over run and taken...
You're a fool
HE reminds us every now & then that this WORLD is TEMPORARY and HE'S PERMANENT. ❤️🙏
A forest is just lik a lawn if left alone it will over grow and summer sun will kill and dry and one sperk and its gone .wint minamal rhinning it will withstand fire with small help but that means spacing and clearing groundd xover so fire cant jump rree to tree .im a trained fire fighter as see this every year .you dont have to strip ut bur bad to leave it alone
Let Oregonians have their land back and we would have that camp back in no time
Disco Inferno
Should have been logged in the 80s.
They should have allowed more logging instead of giving the community problems & trying to kill there jobs about a owl among other things
I think the whole goal is to collapse small businesses and proceed with corporate monopolies and then suppress wages with both fiscal and monetary policies as well as adding labor market distortions via open borders.
In the end, the winners are always:
DADDY government
And
Corporate “america”
Losers:
People that are not afraid of real actual work and building their own life with prosperity
Overall I think the owl was used as simply a scapegoat.
Owls are fairly robust and can easily move to find habitat. I used to watch two separate great horned owl families do just fine - one was in a small patch of forest by a landfill and another was in suburbia… they do just fine as long as they can find food
this is nothing but loss. yes the forest may recover....in 500 years
Government did this
And not a one of them is putting this on the person who could have stopped the fire.
It’s sad that this large fire was caused by the environmentalist and the Democrats it burn for a month and a half before it exploded and burn the large area and the towns.