#Salmon Huckleberry Wilderness

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Fog in the trees on Hunchback Ridge. Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness, Mount Hood National Forest, Oregon. 22 November 2023.

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Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness - Rhododendron, OR [2448 x 3264] (OC)

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The search for a missing hiker and her two dogs in Oregon's Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness was suspended late Tuesday after four days, officials said.

However, authorities said they are continuing to gather information and establish a timeline leading up to the disappearance of 61-year-old Susan Lane-Fournier, and said it remains an active missing person's investigation.

Lane-Fournier was believed to be hiking with her two large Malinois-mix dogs. She was thought to be in the Green Canyon Way Trail area of Welches in Oregon, according to the sheriff's department.

Read more at the link in bio.

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Salmon Huckleberry Wilderness, Oregon

by John Carr

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Happy (almost!) birthday, big boy! 

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Mirror lake, Mt. Hood national forest

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From: Honey surveying the Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness area @iadknet

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I swear to god I wont make a billion more posts about the fires tonight, but

of all the reasons I’ve told myself that I need to spend more time in the gorgeous and wonderful-smelling and green and wonderful forests of the pacific northwest, some of which, when I was younger, I protected from logging with my physical body (mostly symbolically, but we won, with that bit of land)

“because at any second they could burn to ash” was just...not on the list

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Low intensity, purposefully set fires are used to provide protection from the fuel buildup that causes larger, hotter (potentially quite dangerous) fires that have lately been burning across the West. Fire is especially important in mountainous places like the Mid-Klamath, where forests and grasslands are considered to be “fire adapted” both due to the presence of frequent lighting strikes, and also due to the systematic use of fire by Karuk people over thousands of years [...]

The Middle Klamath Basin in California is a place of profound beauty and paradox, where significantly intact ecological systems coexist alongside advancing environmental degradation. [...] The Klamath Basin is remote—from the heart of Karuk ancestral territory at Ka’tim’îin, it is a 2-hour drive to the nearest traffic light. [...] Karuk people, together with their Yurok, Hupa, and Konomihu neighbors [...] have [...] intimate knowledge of the land and [...] ability to sustain and enhance the Klamath region’s year-round abundance of food resources, particularly salmon, deer, elk, and acorns. [...] One of the key tools the Karuk have long used to maintain this natural wealth is fire [...].

What people have described as “traditional management” involves extensive knowledge of particular species and ecological conditions, as well as the knowledge of how to reproduce them. Rather than doing something to the land, ecological systems prosper because humans and nature work together. Working together is part of a pact across species, a pact in which both sides have a sacred responsibility. Traditional foods and what the Karuk call “cultural use species” -- such as salmon and acorns -- flourish as a result of human activities [...].

In direct contrast to the notion that North America was a wilderness untouched by humans, Indigenous people in California and across the continent have systematically developed sophisticated methods of using fire to enhance specific plant species [...] and generally support the flourishing of the species upon which they depend, according to scholars like [...] ecologist and Karuk descendent Frank Lake. [...]

One of the most powerful tools Karuk people have long used to enhance the Klamath region has been fire. Whereas the persistence of fire belies the myth that humans have control over nature, humans and fire have long co-evolved across North America. [...]

A wholesale shift in ecological practice, state structure, and public perception does not happen overnight. Indeed, as compared to discussions of Indigenous land dispossession as a past event, we can trace the 130-year legacy of fire suppression as a process that continues land dispossession into the present [...] Fire suppression was mandated by the very first session of the California Legislature in 1850 during the apex of genocide in the northern part of the state. [...]

European settlers who came to the Klamath region at the turn of the last century feared fire and set up land management policies to suppress it [...]. When the Klamath National Forest was established in 1905 together with the formation of the U.S. Forest Service on the national level, the new agency began a policy of fire suppression in an attempt to protect commercially valuable conifer species from being “wasted” in fires, as the language put it in a 1923 Forest Service report. [...]

Ecological changes and their scientific rationales became the means to perform Indigenous erasure and replacement, and continue to serve as ongoing vectors of colonialism. Ecologists Kat Anderson and Frank Lake describe how fire exclusion has altered species composition and diminished the production of hundreds of important food resources including acorns, huckleberries, and elk, as well as a wide variety of mushrooms and bulbs.

Whereas Indigenous land stewardship occurs at the local level through tribal and family responsibilities to particular places and is guided by knowledge gained through interactions with landscapes, the capitalist-settler state created bureaucratic institutions to manage the land. These natural resource institutions set comprehensive, often nationwide policies based on ecological principles that were believed to be universal.

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Photo, caption, headline, text from: Kari Marie Norgaard. “Colonization, Fire Suppression, and Indigenous Resurgence in the Face of Climate Change.” Yes! Magazine. 22 October 2019.

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Salmon Huckleberry Wilderness

June 26, 2021

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Salmon Huckleberry Wilderness of the Mount Hood National Forest, Oregon. 21-22 November 2023.

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Honey surveying the Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness area

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Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness by  Joshua Johnston

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“Mostly Consumed Nurse Log, Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness.”

©2021 Gary L. Quay

I was in the Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness earlier in January. It was a miserable, rainy day: the kind of day that grows the moss you see everywhere in this picture. I overexposed this one, or, more truthfully, I let the camera overexpose it. I started to make it look like it actually did on that day, but I decided that I like this better.

Camera: Nikon D810

Lens: 28mm Zeiss Distagon ZF2

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Salmon–Huckleberry Wilderness, Oregon

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Overlooking the untouched Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness by kepPNW