Ann Kendellen
"Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another."
- John Muir
A burned forest is "a forest that has been reborn in a biblical sense," according to Dr. Dominick DellaSala, President and Chief Scientist of the Geos Institute. He urges visitors to "keep your mind open and your heart open and your ears open, to be willing to see how nature is happening."
Two years after the Eagle Creek Fire burned 50,000 acres in Oregon's Columbia River Gorge, I hiked along the damaged Pacific Crest Trail outside of Cascade Locks. These images are details from the remarkable landscape happening there.