Mile 298 - Nehalem Beach, Nehalem Bay SP 2 - February 3, 2007

Report Details

Surveyed the beach with members of the NKN Natural Resources Club. Two full SOLV bags of trash collected, 1 10-gal plastic can + one 3' plastic yard fence. Most garbage ~90% was plastic (land based) except for the plastic (5%) rope found, glass bottles 5%.

Conditions

Cloud Cover: Cloudy. Wind Velocity: Moderate. Wind Direction: SW.

Human Activities

Number of people: 9. Number of dogs: 4. Dogs unleashed.

Concerns

Fire

Apparent violations: 1 unattended fire from last night - we put it out. It was far enough away from the dunes not to cause any fire there but stopped the driftwood from burning.

Vehicles

Cars/trucks parking: 3.

Beached Birds

Total dead birds: 5. 1 pelagic cormorant, 2 Common murres, 2 California gulls

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Mile 298

Nehalem Beach, Nehalem Bay SP 2

March 31, 2023

It was very windy and rainy with just one person observed walking in the distance towards the southern end of the mile.

ReichM

Mile 298

Nehalem Beach, Nehalem Bay SP 2

July 12, 2022

Very little human-made debris on beach.

LeboC

Mile 298

Nehalem Beach, Nehalem Bay SP 2

February 4, 2022

The beach was empty.

LeboC

Mile 298

Nehalem Beach, Nehalem Bay SP 2

July 21, 2019

From the entrance to the beach from the state park, walking north, I saw about 40 people, eight dogs, three horses, lots of washed up upside-down crabs, and several small beached jellyfish.

Sue R.