Book Description

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: B&B Complex Fires, Black Butte (Oregon), Black Crater, Cascade Lakes, Cascade Lakes Scenic Byway, Crack in the Ground, Crane Prairie Reservoir, Crescent Lake (Oregon), Cultus Lake (Oregon), Davis Lake, Devil's Garden volcanic field, Diamond Peak Wilderness, East Lake (Oregon), Four Craters Lava Field, Lava Lake (Oregon), Little Cultus Lake, Little Lava Lake, McKenzie Pass, McKenzie Pass - Santiam Pass Scenic Byway, Mount Bachelor, Mount Jefferson Wilderness, Mount Thielsen Wilderness, Mount Washington (Oregon), Mount Washington Wilderness, Newberry National Volcanic Monument, North and South Twin Lakes (Oregon), Odell Lake (Oregon), Oregon Route 126, Oregon Route 242, Paulina Lake, Santiam Wagon Road, Sparks Lake, Suttle Lake (Oregon), Three Fingered Jack, Three Sisters (Oregon), Three Sisters Wilderness, Tumalo Falls, Waldo Lake, Wickiup Reservoir, Williamson Mountain. Excerpt: The B&B Complex Fires were a linked pair of wildfires that together burned 90,769 acres (367.33 km) of Oregon forest during the summer of 2003. The fire complex began as two separate fires, the Bear Butte Fire and the Booth Fire. The two fires were reported on the same day and eventually burned together, forming a single fire area that stretched along the crest of the Cascade Mountains between Mount Jefferson and Mount Washington. On the western side of the Cascades, the fire consumed mostly Douglas-fir and western hemlock. On the eastern side of the mountains, the fire burned mostly Ponderosa pine, lodgepole pine, and jack pine. Most of the burned area was on public land administered by the United States Forest Service including 40,419 acres (163.57 km) within the Mount Jefferson Wilderness. The fire also burned forest land on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation and small areas of state and private land. Firefighters battled the blaze for...