WEather+and+Climate

__**Highlights **__ **1. ** The Shadow of the Cascades **2. ** Fort Rock State Park **3. ** Paisley **4. ** Goose Lake State Recreational Area **5. ** Summer Lake Wildlife **6. ** Rim Shot **<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">7. ** Christmas Valley <span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.025em; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">8. ** Sand Dunes <span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.025em; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">From Highway 97 (La Pine) take Route 31 to Fort Rock State Monument (seven miles off Route 31). Fort Rock is the remains of a volcano that rises 325 feet above sagebrush plains reminiscent of the Australian Outback. <span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.025em; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Continue south on Route 31 to Picture Rock Pass, named for the ancient Indian petroglyphs located a short walk from the highway. <span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.025em; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Next stop is Summer Lake Wildlife Area. Beyond the lake is the town of Paisley. Continue on Route 31 until it joins Highway 395. The horizon is dominated by Abert Rim, a 30-mile-long fault escarpment rising 2,000 feet above the desert floor. <span style="color: #4c4c4c; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.025em; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Lakeview, Oregon’s ”tallest town” at 4,800 feet, is next. The byway ends at New Pine Creek and Goose Lake State Recreational Area.

**<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Estimated travel time: ** Four hours <span style="color: #184b81; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">The temperate forests are always changing due to the weather, animals, and people. <span style="color: #184b81; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">The average temperature for a year in the temperate forest is about 50 degrees F. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">Temperate rainforests grow along the western coasts of northern North America and southern South America; northern coast of Spain; the coast of Croatia, in many places in Ireland and <span class="IL_AD" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: #3300ff !important; border-bottom-style: dotted !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: #3300ff !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif !important; font-size: 13px !important; font-style: normal !important; font-weight: normal !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static;">Scotland ; on the western coast of Norway; on the coasts of southern Black Sea and Caspian Sea in Russia; southern China; many places in Taiwan; eastern coast of Korea; many places in Japan; south-eastern [|Australia], [|Tasmania] and in many places in New Zealand. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">Temperate rainforests don't need the heat like tropical rainforests, but they do need the humidity - they are still RAINforests! They need a rainfall of at least 1400mm a year. The temperatures they need are pretty cool, the main thing is that the annual average temperature has to be between 4 and 12°C.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Broken Group Islands Unit consists of over 100 islands, islets and rocky outcrops scattered in the centre of Barkley Sound, between Loudoun Channel and Imperial Eagle Channel. This unit totals 10,607 hectares, of which only 1,350 hectares is land. The larger of the forested islands are Effingham, Turret, Turtle, Dudd, Jacques, Nettle and Gibraltar Island. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The Broken Group is known internationally for awesome kayaking and wilderness camping enjoyed by organized adventurers seeking escape to the remote and desolate islands within the park. Natural features of this tranquil group of islands include lagoons, sandbars, blowholes, arches and secluded anchorages. Ancient native middens, village fortifications, stone fishtraps and archaeological sites stimulate the imagination of visitors to this traditional territory of the Nuu-chah-nulth people. Canoe and kayak access to the Broken Group Islands from Bamfield or Ucluelet is not recommended due to the exposed passages. Boaters and ocean paddlers can access the Broken Group Islands via Toquart Bay in northwest Barkley Sound. The unsigned road turnoff is located about 12 km northeast of the junction of Highway 4 and the Tofino-Ucluelet Highway. A BC recreation campsite is located at Toquart Bay on the North side of Barkley Sound providing a boat launch for access to the islands. The popular Torquart Bay Recreation Campsite sees a lot of traffic from kayakers heading over to the Broken Islands. There are about 15 oceanside open tent sites, as well as RV areas, a cement boat launch, and lovely south-facing sand beaches. There is a parking fee for those who wish to park at the site but not camp there. From Port Alberni follow the Tofino Highway 4 for about 50 miles (80 kms). Turn left at the sign for Torquart Bay on to the Maggie Lake Forest Service Road and follow it for 15.5 km. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The MV Frances Barkley will transport paddlers, kayaks and canoes to Sechart, on the fringe of the Broken Group Islands. The passenger and cargo vessel travels between Port Alberni, the Broken Group Islands, Ucluelet and Bamfield during the spring, summer and fall.

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