50 Hikes in the Tillamook and Clatsop State Forests

Product Description

50 Hikes in the Tillamook and Clatsop State Forests provides hikers the chance to explore and experience the ever-changing environments of these forests through the studied eyes of the Sierra Club. This updated edition contains current trail information, path descriptions, driving directions, and regional history on some of Oregon’s lushest yet unexplored trails.
50 Hikes includes a new introduction written by Daniel O’Neil, which details the history of this wondrous region; a foreword by Robert Kentta, cultural resources director of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians; original illustrations of its plant life; and photographs collected by Sierra Club members. Readers will be imbued with a full sense of wonder for these forests. From coastal plains to canopied forests,
50 Hikes celebrates the adventurous landscapes of Northwest Oregon by revisiting the Sierra Club’s iconic 2001 guidebook.

Review

“Less known to Oregon hikers, the deep woods of the Tillamook State Forest are a mystery no longer. Close to Portland, but uncrowded and easy to access, these 50 hikes lead to explorations of meadows, creeks, swimming holes, and peaks in an iconic Oregon ecosystem, the temperate rainforest.”
—Laura O. Foster, author of Columbia Gorge Getaways: 12 Weekend Adventures from Towns to Trails

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The Sierra Club’s 50 Hikes in the Tillamook and Clatsop State Forests is part traditional guidebook, part manifesto on environmental preservation, aiming to inspire in readers an appreciation of public lands—and a corresponding determination to protect the Tillamook and Clatsop State Forests from eager logging companies.”

—Catherine Johnson, Portland Monthly Magazine

“With easy walks and hair-raising bushwhacks, this explorer’s guide to the woods between Portland and the Coast is a manifesto that our state forests should celebrate hiking boots, and not just chainsaws and motorcycles.”
—William L. Sullivan, author of 100 Hikes guidebooks

About the Author

With more than two million supporters nationwide, the Sierra Club is the nation’s largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization. The Oregon Chapter of the Sierra Club (the authors of this guidebook) has been committed to protecting the beauty, biodiversity, and accessibility of the recovering Tillamook and Clatsop State Forest ecosystems for three decades. Their need to make people aware of these temperate coastal rain forests―and in effect, promote their protection―is a major impetus of this book.
50 Hikes in the Tillamook and Clatsop State Forests takes on the environmental protection characteristics of the Sierra Club to lead a conservation effort by using their vast network of millions of volunteers. The contributors to this book encourage people to visit these adventurous regions, and in doing so, hope that others will join them in protecting these forests. For more information on the Oregon Chapter of the Sierra Club, follow this or connect with them online via , , or .