1859 Summer 2009
1859 Summer 2009
1859 Summer 2009
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Suggest a road or<br />
river for The Road<br />
Reconsidered at<br />
<strong>1859</strong>magazine.com<br />
<br />
<br />
Construction of Sunset Highway in October 1936<br />
(City of Portland Archives)<br />
<br />
<br />
Portland<br />
Fallen giant<br />
The Klootchy Creek Giant sitka, in Klootchy<br />
Creek Park just southeast of Seaside, Oregon<br />
on Hwy 26, was the largest sitka spruce in<br />
the country at 216 feet tall<br />
and 56 feet around! The<br />
first known documentation<br />
of this towering tree<br />
was noted in the journal<br />
of Meriwether Lewis on<br />
Tuesday, February 4, 1806.<br />
On December 2, 2007, a<br />
windstorm snapped the<br />
tree along an old lightning<br />
scar, cutting it down<br />
to 80 feet but leaving it<br />
alive to nurse more giant<br />
sitkas. Klootchy Creek Giant<br />
was the first Oregon<br />
Heritage Tree. (Lewisand-<br />
ClarkTrail.com, Oregon<br />
Travel Information Council) The sitka spruce as it now stands.<br />
Photo courtesy Oregon Travel Information Council
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