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designated the Tillamook
State Forest by Gov. Tom
McCall in 1973. Hiking in
the area ranges from leisure-
ly walks along Gales Creek
to steep, 2,000-plus-foot
ascents of Elk and Kings
Mountain adopted by the
Mazamas, a nonprofit moun-
taineering education group.
The next section of hikes
visits the Trask and Tualatin
rivers in Washington and
Tillamook counties, start-
ing with routes around the
expansive reservoir Henry
Hagg Lake and moving to
the Trask River and Valley
east of Tillamook. The focus
on Tillamook Bay finishes
with several hikes along the
Miami and Kilchis rivers,
two other feeders.
The guide then moves
to the drainages of the
Nehalem and Salmonberry
rivers running into Nehalem
Bay and accessed from
U.S. Highway 26, before
finishing to the north in
the Clatsop State Forest,
154,000 acres largely deeded
by county residents to the
state and designated a forest
in 1973.
While some of the hikes
are near Oregon highways
26 and 6, many start on
some of the more than 1,000
miles of forest roads snaking
through northwest Oregon.
The Sierra Club recom-
mends buying a printed
version of the Northwest
Oregon Protection District
Map produced by the Ore-
gon Department of Forestry
before driving in.
The book also cautions
visitors to be mindful of
active logging operations,
off-road vehicles and horses
sharing some of the trails,
along with target shooters
and hunters in the fall.
Staying vigilant
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The book appears in
part a call to action after
the near-sale of the Elliott
State Forest, an 82,500-acre
tract in the southern Coast
Range, and the general angst
over threats to public lands
EDWARD STRATTON PHOTO
Elliott Creek tumbles down University Falls on its way to meet
the Wilson River in the Tillamook State Forest. An rugged
8-mile loop and easy 2-mile jaunt to the falls are accessed from
forest roads off Oregon Highway 6 and featured in the Sierra
Club’s upcoming forest guide.
in the American West. In
May, the Oregon State Land
Board voted to retain public
ownership of the Elliott after
proposing several months
earlier to sell the forest. The
decision came after a cas-
cade of support for keeping
the lands public.
“The Elliott is not alone
in facing the threat of privat-
ization,” Chris Smith, a for-
mer conservation program
coordinator with the Sierra
Club, said in a message to
readers in the book. “Even
before the nationwide fear
of losing public lands heated
up, the Tillamook and Clat-
sop quietly encountered this
possibility.”
Smith, the former coor-
dinator of North Coast State
Forest Coalition (now the
Oregon Forest Conservation
Coalition), details a propos-
al by a representative of a
logging company in 2013
to sell the forests. “The idea
was never seriously con-
sidered, but there is clearly
an interest in seeing these
forests logged at the highest
possible rate,” he said.
The Sierra Club’s book is
being published by Ooligan
Press, a nonprofit staffed by
graduate students at Portland
State University.
“We publish a lot of
books that have to do with
the Pacific Northwest, spe-
cifically,” said T.J. Carter,
an editor with Ooligan. “We
decided this would be a fun
project. We’re a nonprofit,
and Sierra is a nonprofit.”
Carter said advanced
copies of the book have
been sent to local bookstores
in Astoria and another in
Cannon Beach. The book
will be available at regional
bookstores and online in
an electronic format after
March 1. It is also avail-
able for preorder online at
Amazon. CW