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WYATT - Eastern View Columbia River Gorge

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Columbia River Gorge as seen from Rowena Crest looking East.

Located on the old Columbia River Scenic Highway, 11 miles east of Hood River on the Oregon/Washington border. Spectacular spring wildflower displays grace this magnificent plateau overlooking the Columbia River. The preserve is so diverse partly because it lies in the transition zone between the moist, heavily-forested west side of the Cascades and the drier bunchgrass prairies of the east. The geology of the plateau is also intriguing. Lava flows, catastrophic floods and volcanic ash deposits shaped a mound-and-swale topography that perplexes the experts. Earthquake sorting, freezing and thawing, erosion, soil accumulations by plants and wildlife burrowing activities have all been suggested as having caused the mounds.