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Check your ■SI Dunes Continued from Page 1A he gets from the dunes as being the same feeling he had when he saw Europe's ancient cathedrals, “Returning to the dunes year af ter year has become a type of visual and spiritual pilgrimage,” Vliek said. “You get into a zone where it’s just a slow walk, where you go from one to the next and your blood pres sure goes down, and you don’t hear dune buggies if there are any and your vision becomes myopic.” Bright sun without rain for a day or two, so the wind can do its sculpting without leaving rain speckles, followed by a day with lit tle or no wind, creates just the right conditions for his photographs, Vliek said. But being blessed with those conditions during the Oregon winter, which is when Vliek takes his photos, is not a sure thing. “December and January are best for photos — that’s when heavy rains and wind make amazing cuts,” Vliek said. “It blows and cuts and grinds the sand down. In the summer they are smooth.” Vliek began photographing dunes after moving to Oregon from Hawaii, where he worked as a gofer for a cinematographer who was documenting the eruption of Mt. Kilauea. He said he had no idea there were dunes in Oregon and only discovered them by ac cident when he visited Honey moon Park just south of Florence. “Every photographer should have a place that’s truly special for them, that becomes a passion,” Vliek said. “This is my passion.” Vliek’s passion involves more than a leisurely stroll through the dunes. He leaves his Eugene home at 5 in the morning, drives 11/2 hours and then walks another half hour before he arrives at the carved sand images. “Once I’m there I have only 2 1/2 hours of good light, then it’s coffee and pastries in Florence and then back to the dunes by 2 p.m.,” Vliek said. During a good day he will walk 4-8 miles with his 40-pound pack and take 40 to 50 shots. When con ditions don’t cooperate, Vliek can go weeks without getting a shot. Maude Kerns Art Center ex hibits coordinator Tina Schrager said Vliek approached them about having an exhibit. “As a group we decided it was beautiful work, and we’ve never exhibited a lot of it at once,” Schrager said. “We thought that the destruction of the dunes was an important issue for the com munity, and at Maude Kerns we try to involve school kids and we thought the whole issue of preser vation and destruction of the dunes would interest students.” The dunes are being destroyed by the encroachment of European beach grass, which was planted between 1908-1910 as a means of stabilizing dune areas for devel opment, said John Zapell, public information specialist for the Mapleton Ranger District. The nonnative beach grass now threatens the open dunes that once stretched along 50 miles of coastline from Florence to Coos Bay. Beach grass was first planted around the estuaries near the mouths of rivers, but it spread along the coastline forming what is called a foredune. The foredune cuts off the natural sand source for active inland dunes. At the time it was planted the only concern was stabilization, Zapell said. “They knew what the grass would do, but they didn’t take into account other factors,” Zapell said. "Now we are seeing that it wasn’t best for the snowy plover and some other animals and oth er native species.” Vliek said it is extremely diffi cult, if not physically impossible, to rid the dunes of the beach grass. Herbicides that might kill the grass would do more damage to the environment than good, and to get rid of the grass the old fashioned way, by pulling it out, would take thousands of people. “By sharing my photographs of the dunes with others,” Vliek said, “I have the opportunity to help direct the course of human relationship to this endangered landscape.” For more information about Vliek’s exhibition, call the Maude Kerns Art Center at 345-1571. Get results with Oregon Daily Emerald Classifieds! 34©*4-3MUJ No class without classified workers Classified Employees in the Oregon University System perform dozens of jobs that make our schools better places to teach, research and learn. Higher ed classified workers keep our public univer sities running by caring for the grounds, maintaining the dorms and class rooms, feeding the students, working with faculty and keeping financial records accurate. 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