![]() Two more shelters also were created, one for people with livestock at the Molalla Buckeroo at 815 Shirley Street in Molalla and another at Bohlander Park in Molalla for people with RVs. The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office announced Level 3, or “Go Now,” evacuations late Friday evening, and the Red Cross set up a shelter at Clackamas Community College. By Saturday morning, skies across much of Western Oregon were tinged with a pinkish-yellow haze due to a heavy blanket of smoke.Īndrew Selsky / AP Evacuations ordered near Estacada’s Milo McIver State ParkĪ fire near Estacada’s Milo McIver State Park took off Friday night, leading to an evacuation order for nearby residents, as gusty winds fanned flames across the state. The fire was started by lightning in early August, but strong winds were causing it to spread rapidly toward residential areas.Ī helicopter carries water on a longline to a wildfire near Salem, Ore., at sunset Friday, Sept. More updated information can be found on Lane County’s website.īrown invoked an emergency conflagration act in response to the fire to make more firefighting resources available to local agencies. There’s a temporary evacuation point stationed at Lane Community College and the Lane Events Center in Eugene. Sexton said weather conditions are expected to become more moderate Sunday, but officials don’t yet know when people can begin returning home. Sexton said the heat from the fire is drying out grasses and other fire fuel before flames reach the area, making conditions even worse. “In fact, it’s extreme fire behavior today,” Sexton said. The high winds and low humidity continued to feed the fire into Saturday, according to Bud Sexton, a spokesman for the Cedar Creek Fire. Officials asked them to evacuate immediately, and to head west, away from the fire. ![]() Strong winds Friday pushed the fire toward the residential communities of Oakridge, Wesfir and High Prairie. The entire town of Oakridge in Lane County is under a Level 3 “Go Now” evacuation because of the Cedar Creek Fire. The trip planner links to blog posts to help you plan your next adventure.Wildfire in Lane County continues to threaten communities There are weird and wonderful things to explore any time of year. You can find adventures near you and filter by season and difficulty level. Thanks for joining us at Milo McIver State Park! For more adventure ideas in the Pacific Northwest, check out our PNW Trip Planner. Other Adventures in the Pacific Northwest The visitor center is open daily, and you can see steelhead March through April and Chinook salmon from June to October. Something we’ll check out next trip is the nearby Clackamas Fish Hatchery. Milo McIver State Park offers space for a variety of activities in addition to hiking, including disc golf, camping, fishing, kayaking, canoeing, swimming, and horseback riding. Its age isn’t known, but it’ll be older than it looks! Other Popular Activities at Milo McIver State Park The parks department also points out that yew trees are quite slow-growing, which explains its modest size. Per the Oregon State Parks, in addition to taking second at the national level, it’s the very largest Pacific Yew in Oregon. The yew tree at Milo McIver State Park is a Pacific Yew tree. For details on those three old-growth forest hikes, check out our Big Trees of Oregon blog post. Compared to the Oregon redwoods near Brookings, a massive myrtle tree in Curry County, and the enormous fir trees we’d seen along the Frances Shrader Old Growth Trail, this yew tree was positively small. We were surprised to find no signs, and also surprised at the yew tree’s somewhat diminutive stature. It isn’t marked, and there’s no nearby signage to indicate it’s there. If you’re looking for it, it’s before the trail’s big bend to the left. After walking right past it initially, we finally spotted the tree on the right side of Dog Creek Trail (from the perspective of leaving the parking lot). ![]() Since this was our first time seeing a yew tree at all, we took a while to find the tree we’d seen on the map. The map had marked the yew tree with a tree symbol along the short Dog Creek Trail. I’d never seen a promotion for a tree that’s “second-largest” or “second-oldest,” but we love big trees and had to check this out.Īfter hiking the Riverbend Trail Loop, we headed to the other side of Milo McIver State Park to look for this fabled tree. On one of the park signs, we saw an intriguing label on the map legend: “Nation’s second-largest yew tree.” How to Find the Second-Largest Yew Tree in the US at Milo McIver State Park
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