I am not sure if I'll be including Oxbow park and the rest of the Sandy River on this site, but I wanted to keep track of the article below just in case... (April 9, 2020: I'll probably add it to the Mt. Hood Loop site eventually, in a section on East County roads "closing the loop.")

Photo of the Day by A. F. Litt: November 11, 2015 [Above]

For today's photo I went a little random into the old files and landed in some shots I took in Oxbow Regional Park back in 2010. What's cool about this shot is that you can see the stumps buried in Mt. Hood's 1781 Old Maid eruptions emerging. After some major storms over the next few years, much more of this bank was eroded away revealing many more of these old trees. These stumps first came to attention in 2013, but this photo shows that some were already starting to poke out a few years earlier...

Links

Sullivan, William. "Sandy River uncovers a forest buried by Mount Hood in 1781". The Statesman Journal. Apr. 20, 2013

http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20130421/COLUMN0402/304200018/Sandy-River-uncovers-forest-buried-by-Mount-Hood-1781

2014 Bretz Club Field Trip Materials Sandy River, Oregon April 10-12, 2014. Oregon State University.

http://wpg.forestry.oregonstate.edu/sites/wpg/files/2014BretzFieldGuide.pdf

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