Mile 298 - Nehalem Beach, Nehalem Bay SP 2 - September 20, 2008

Report Details

We also helped with the SOLV beach cleanup. Found an old derelict tent, and collected one SOLV bag of trash. (Beach was clean.) We completed the international survey of litter found on the beach for Ocean Conservancy. Ten students from the NKN Natural Resource club helped with this survey and cut Scotchbroom for NCRD. We completed many tasks today.

Conditions

Cloud Cover: Sunny. Wind Velocity: Calm/Light.

Human Activities

Number of people: 12. Walking or running: 8. Other Activities: horse riding: 4.

Vehicles

Cars/trucks parking: 5.

Beached Birds

Total dead birds: 14. 7 murres, 1 marbled murrelet, 1 brown pelican, 1 Sanderling, 3 gulls, 1 dead murre with blue wingband

Driftline Content

horse manure

Actions & Comments

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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.