Abstract
The Tillamook Burn, which burned over 355,000 acres of private, old-growth timber in northwestern Oregon approximately fifty years ago, led to a short-lived boom in salvage lumbering and accelerated the southward shift of logging and sawmilling in western Oregon. Despite biotic recovery, the geography of northwestern Oregon continues to show the lingering effect of the fire on community and economic development. Following county, then state, land revestiture and consolidation, the reforested Burn constitutes a vast "empty area" abutting the Portland metropolitan area and suggests a future conflict between recreational usage and second-growth harvest plans.
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