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Latest Mile Reports
Mile 245 - Roads End Beach, Wayside, Logan Creek
May 20, 2022 - 12:30pm - TerryH
Clean beach except for an oil barrel and some sea lion bones. The sea lion bones explain the presence of several vultures and an occasional eagle the past few weeks. Contacted State Parks Ranger Ryan Parker for removal of barrel.
Mile 339 - Clatsop Spit, Fort Stevens SP
May 18, 2022 - 10:00am - edjoyce
All looks about the same except for dunes being less steep. We could help quantify changes in beach/dune steepness via beach profiling techniques.
Mile 194 - Yachats, Adobe Inn, Smelt Sands Wayside
May 17, 2022 - 9:00am - tietjenl
This Coastwatch walk started out with a fly by of 8 brown pelicans in line just above the surface of the water! Loved it! Gorgeous, sunny morning with almost no wind. Spent some time watching two purple shore crabs apparently fighting just below the level of the water. No dead...