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Ancient Forests, Lost Landscapes

Friday, May 23, 2008 at 8:00 AM - Sunday, May 25, 2008 at 6:00 PM (PT)

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This trip begins and ends at the High Desert Museum, Bend.

May 23: Evening talk/panel: Oregon’s living Ice-Age Forests, and their messages about climate change.  (Stu Garrett, Native Plant Society, invited; Rick Miller, Oregon State University, Invited.)

1)      May 24: depart HD, 8:00 AM.  Travel, Horse Ridge/Badlands area, Rick Miller: Ancient Junipers, and previous forests;  Continue to Milican, turn south to Christmas Valley. Badlands, geology, Brothers fault zone, recent eruptions, lake basins. Lunch at Christmas valley.   Lost Forest, Crack in the Ground, 1:30-4 PM. Continue to Wagontire, US 395. Stay, Burns, OR Best Western. Dinner on your own.

2)      May 25. Depart Burns, 8:30 AM. Travel US 395 to Seneca; volcanic and logging history enroute. USFS road  63 to Izee, and South Fork Road to Cedar Grove botanical Are. 1.5 mile hike.  Sack lunch.  Continue to Aldrich Mtn. overlook. Walk through 2006 Aldrich Burn, with discussion of fire ecology, fire-based ecosystems, role of climate in forest health, person TBA, Oregon Department of Forestry, and Jeffery Odem, USFS, Malheur National Forest. Pie and coffee in Dayville, 4 PM. Return to HDM, 6 PM.