Cat Hill

In 1910, a lightning-caused fire ravaged 12,000 acres on these slopes and destroyed valuable timber. Nature has replaced many of the trees through natural seeding, visible in the young saplings below the line of mature timber near the ridge top. In the foreground, reforestation has also been aided by people, as the U.S. Forest Service cleared brush that restricts tree growth and planted Ponderosa pine and Douglas fir saplings.

Oregon · United States