What Opal Creek Wilderness looks like after the Beachie Creek Fire

What Opal Creek Wilderness looks like after the Beachie Creek Fire | Oregon Field Guide

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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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@StarDArashi 2 жыл бұрын

Seeing such old trees burn breaks my heart

@allanerickson5053 2 жыл бұрын

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?

@mkilptrick 2 жыл бұрын

Yes! It will grow again for future generations. We Love Oregon!

@timothys.ritter3378 Жыл бұрын

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.

@louisevad6091 10 ай бұрын

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.

@mitchgillilan 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@jasondonatelli962 2 жыл бұрын

This was one of my favorite places. I'm thankful I got that experience twice but it is heart breaking to see it now.

@adamblackman6660 2 жыл бұрын

Those ancient growth trees were truly magnificent….. 1000 years from now, I wonder if any people will here to enjoy the new ones.

@peterdebad1 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@SeanStewart88 2 жыл бұрын

We likely won’t see it back to how it was in our lifetime

@edwardj3070 Жыл бұрын

wait?? you got centuries of waiting to do

@U.s-epa Жыл бұрын

@@SeanStewart88that's a selfish mentality. Nature is more than one lifetime.

@U.s-epa Жыл бұрын

Agreed. It's crazy to me reading so many comments that are so negative about a natural process.

@SeanStewart88 Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@anymaru 2 жыл бұрын

Just so devastating. Thank you for this video.

@RJTheMountainSage 2 жыл бұрын

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

@alteshaus5627 5 ай бұрын

Saw Detroit and the forest at our roadtrip last September...a special atmosphere.

@tthappyrock368 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@Oregun44 5 ай бұрын

It truly was one of the most beautiful places

@uppertributaries 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing work. Thank you

@StephanyChills Жыл бұрын

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.

@MattCookOregon 2 жыл бұрын

Great work. I went here as a kid many times. Wonder when it will open again.

@shirehouse7325 Жыл бұрын

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

@hankb27 2 жыл бұрын

Been waiting on this, thanks

@justbe1451 2 жыл бұрын

We appreciate, with true value, when it's lost.

@pinesandmines 2 жыл бұрын

Glad I got to explore most of the abandoned mines here before the fires.

@chezbignw5033 2 жыл бұрын

I love my Oregon love to explore it 😎🌲🌲🌲

@tenn_ore 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@Oregun44 Жыл бұрын

I was there the day before it burnt. I loved opal and all of north fork.

@lisaweakley7883 Жыл бұрын

I live near Opal creek. Miss being able to hike the trails. Terrifying fire that year.

@barbaraarledge448 9 ай бұрын

Nice trees were left standing

@CAMFILMDIT Жыл бұрын

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

@verafleck 2 жыл бұрын

The last 30 seconds made me click on like. So true. So true.

@RayNomadic 9 ай бұрын

So sad to see those old buildings gone

@edwardj3070 Жыл бұрын

all the struggle to save this place.. jesus TCBoyle got it right in Friend of the Earth

@krazymonkeyzzz 2 жыл бұрын

Is the three pools area still closed?

@frankblangeard8865 Жыл бұрын

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.

@davec9244 4 ай бұрын

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

@enemyofmyenemy6713 Жыл бұрын

seeing our Oregon Forests burn year after year is heartbreaking as the Green State hopefully we remain Green & the habitat, wildlife survive and thrive

@skyybluu3118 3 ай бұрын

Unreal

@JoeStreet-ws1ro 8 ай бұрын

Old mining places like this would bring sawmill in..the lumber would shore up mine and build housing and anything else

@markmark2080 2 жыл бұрын

Two words come to mind...Paradise lost. One can only imagine how the "Indians" felt as their lands were over run and taken...

@roshifugai8113 2 жыл бұрын

You're a fool

@jonesfactor9 10 ай бұрын

I just want pass through and see the mines in the area.

@victor-th4qs 11 ай бұрын

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.

@07wrxtr1 2 ай бұрын

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….

@CAMFILMDIT Жыл бұрын

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..

@JoeStreet-ws1ro 8 ай бұрын

Wish i knew kow to contact the owners.i have a 1880 saw mill minus powerplant that would be great for site like this.

@lecomtess2878 2 жыл бұрын

Any timeline for when it might reopen?

@johnperhach2534 Жыл бұрын

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.

@edwardj3070 Жыл бұрын

in 500 years

@LoireValleyChateaux 2 жыл бұрын

HE reminds us every now & then that this WORLD is TEMPORARY and HE'S PERMANENT. ❤️🙏

@JoeStreet-ws1ro 8 ай бұрын

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

@preacherpdx5519 4 ай бұрын

Let Oregonians have their land back and we would have that camp back in no time

@TimCleese Ай бұрын

Disco Inferno

@rustybaughman471 9 ай бұрын

Should have been logged in the 80s.

@edwardj3070 Жыл бұрын

this is nothing but loss. yes the forest may recover....in 500 years

@dustinjohnson3463 8 ай бұрын

They should have allowed more logging instead of giving the community problems & trying to kill there jobs about a owl among other things

@07wrxtr1 2 ай бұрын

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

@ericeaklor1300 5 ай бұрын

Government did this

@user-ee8uy3dd5u 5 ай бұрын

And not a one of them is putting this on the person who could have stopped the fire.

@ron9381 Жыл бұрын

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.