Aerial Photos of Cougar Creek Fire

(all photos this page by Darryl Lloyd)

Easternmost Bird Creek Meadows (9/7), with Round-the-Mountain Trail #9 identified:

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Burn patchwork in heavily logged areas at about the 4,000-ft. level. View is toward the east over tribal, private and WA DNR lands. Trees and Bird Creek Rd. in lower part of photo are in GPNF:

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Approaching Mirror Lake from the south. Bird Lake road is visible in center-left.

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Mirror Lake looking south. Bird Lake road in lower-center. This area last burned in 1885.

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Bird Lake looking south. Most of the campground was destroyed.

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Bluff Lake looking south.

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Bench Lake looking east. Most of the campground was spared.

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Easternmost Bird Creek Meadows. Bench Lake in background.

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Westernmost Bird Creek Meadows and Gotchen meadows in GPNF (at left)..

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Western part of the Yakama Nation Recreation Area. The ridge at lower-right is the Yakama Reservation/GPNF boundary. Bird Lake at far left.

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