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West Hills
Jason Lee trail (historical)
Logie Trail (historical)
Jackson Creek
Vedanta Retreat trail
Barrow Loop
Gourlay Creek & Dutch Canyon
Bridle Trail – Upper Gourlay Creek area
Buck Mountain Loop
Elk Kick Loop
Gourlay Creek – Lower Loop
Gourlay Creek – Main Stem
Gourlay Creek – Upper Trail
Southwestern Slope
Bacona Road
Jackson Creek – West slope
Pottratz Road Loop
Scappoose-Vernonia-Banks Linear Trails
01: Banks to Manning
02: Buxton to Stub Stewart
03a: Stub Stewart to Trestle
03b: Trestle to Braun
03c: Braun to Vernonia Lake
04: Vernonia Lake to Elk Creek.
05: Elk Creek to Summit.
6: Summit to Spitzenberg
7: Spitzenberg to Scappoose
Nehalem Valleys
Connection to Hwy 26 & Trestleview Trail
Cow Creek
Dogthief Mountain
Eastside Grade to Camp McGregor Road
Eastside Gradeline to Rock Creek Gradeline Connection.
Four County Point Trail
Military Creek Road
Peterson Crossover
Rock Creek
Rocky Point to Eastside Grade
Steam Donkey
Bloom Lake Hike
Saddle Mtn
Pope Ridge to Saddle Mountain
Ridge Runners’ Delight
Saddle Mountain to Humbug Mountain
Salmonberry area
Cochran Road
Dober Road
Gales Creek area hikes
Gales Creek Loop via Round Top
King’s Mountain and Elk Mountain Loop
Storey Burn Trail
Triple C Trail
University Falls & Gravelle Brothers Trail
Wilson River Wagon Road Trail
Lower Salmonberry River
Ridge Road to Dober Road
Two Rocks Loop
Upper Salmonberry
North Fork Salmonberry – alternative access to Salmonberry River
Roger’s Peak
Nature & Places
Birds
Ravens and crows
Forestry history
Camp Eight
Camp McGregor
Geology
Fossil hunting along the Sunset Highway
The Geology of the West Hills
Indian lore
The Clatsop Indians
Insects and Amphibians
Mammals
Pacific Greenway Project
Places
Camp Eight
Necanicum River
St.Helens
Plants & Trees
History
Forward
Introduction
1750’s
Chapter 1 – Life in Wapato Country
Chapter 2 – Mud is us!
Chapter 3 – Illahee and the Tribes
Chapter 4 – Cowaniah and the Klickitats – add info re: 1855 rebellion
Chapter 5 – Contagion – add material from Thompson
Chapter 6: Indigenous Tales – add mat’ls & edit for cohesion
Chapter 7 – space for additional material.
Chapter 8 – Two Spirits Woman, the Kootenai Doomsday Prophetress
Chapter 9 – Indian Twilight – edit for cohesion
1840’s
Chapter 7 – Before the Wagons arrived
Chapter 8 – 1840 brings New Arrivals
Chapter 9 – Penetrating the Nehalem River valley
Chapter 10 – Portraits
Chapter 11 – tbd
Chapter 12 – tbd
1930’s
Chapter 13 – Letting the Daylight into the Swamp
Chapter 14 – Dr. MacLaughlin’s Hawaiian Lumber trade
Chapter 15 – The unstoppable meets the impenetrable
Chapter 16 – Forest Fires
Chapter 17 – Technology in the woods
Chapter 18 – The Timber Wars
2020’s
Chapter 19 – A vision towards a more sustainable Land ethic
Chapter 20 – A vision of the long trail
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Purchase History
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