Multnomah Falls Engulfed in Flames by Out-of-Control Wildfire

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62. It's best they be let go now.

In the '70s a hiking friend who was a geologist, a botanist and a naturalist found a species of tree that was never before catalogued. Soon after he came accross another. He was concerned they could be destroyed if they were mapped so he kept them a secret even from me. They were in the Eagle Creek Bull Run watershed area and Mt Hood Wilderness area. That's as close as I'll tell. A week before he died he told me where they were saying that he wanted to have a backup who shared his urgency to protect them. He died in eagle creek, hit his head and drowned. And now I find it difficult to have lost these life forms in this way. It magnifies the loss of my friend long ago. I don't think he could ever imagine what has happened in these days. I wish I didn't know that it did.