Tour of the Miles
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Latest Mile Reports
Mile 291 - Camp Magruder north, Watseco, Twin Rocks SW
August 11, 2022 - 10:30am - BerrieC
3 groups of Snowy Plovers feeding a the water's edge, approx 120 birds between Twin Rocks and Watseco. Other items: Small bag of dog poop. Buoy Beer label. Large amounts of seaweed in which debris and dead birds were tangled. Also, there was a service vehicle on the beach.
Mile 339 - Clatsop Spit, Fort Stevens SP
August 10, 2022 - 10:00am - edjoyce
Nothing out of the ordinary. Dunes have taken on a typical summer profile being less steep than winter.
Mile 239 - Salishan Spit north, Siletz Bay
August 6, 2022 - 5:30pm - ORbeach
Found a dead sea lion on the beach at beach access #50. It was not here a week ago when we did our coast walk. It was pretty badly decomposed so may have died at sea and been washed up. Hard to determine if there was any trauma involved. There...