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You would never know that fireworks are illegal on Oregon beaches. Dozens of people setting off illegal fireworks with no noticeable enforcement of the fireworks ban. Please copy and paste links into your browser to view videos: https://vimeo.com/ronbourke/tdm-fireworks-1 https://vimeo.com/ronbourke/idm-fireworks-2 https://vimeo.com/ronbourke/idm-fireworks-3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrpLgT6K1MY

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Wind Velocity: Calm/Light.

Human Activities

Complete disregard for laws prohibiting fireworks on state beaches. This year was far worse than previous years. The very warm weather certainly contributed to the large amount of people on the beach. The next morning I chatted with a pair of State Park Rangers and they said that there's not much they can do about it. I worry about wild fires with the warm dry weather and beach grass.

Concerns

Apparent violations: Extensive use of illegal fireworks all along the Tierra del Mar beach. There's a 'fireworks prohibited' sign at the south end of the mile, but it was totally ignored as dozens of people fired off bottle rockets, fire crackers, and other commercial grade fireworks for at least a couple of hours. News media also made multiple reports on Oregon laws on use of illegal fireworks along all beaches and any exploding or shooting fireworks..

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Tierra Del Mar

July 4, 2024

You would never know that fireworks are illegal on Oregon beaches. https://vimeo. https://vimeo. https://vimeo. https://www.

Ronald Bourke

Start of Mile 264 Looking north

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Tierra Del Mar

November 26, 2023

First walk, more of an initial observation.

LisaO

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Tierra Del Mar

April 24, 2023

Beach was very clean with virtually no man-made debris.

rbourke

decorative elemnt for a coastwatch report.

Mile 264

Tierra Del Mar

July 11, 2022

Warm windy afternoon.

rbourke

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Tierra Del Mar

May 27, 2022

Cloudy with incoming storm clouds on the horizon.

QuanB

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Tierra Del Mar

May 6, 2022

Nice, sunny, late afternoon with few folks on the shoreline.

QuanB

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Tierra Del Mar

April 11, 2022

Lots of broken seashells all along the shoreline.

QuanB

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Tierra Del Mar

March 31, 2022

Wonderful, beach was clean, and hardly any people.

QuanB