Shifting Sands: A Landscape Evolves
Tom Horning
When: 6-8 pm
Where: Community Room
Seaside Public Library
1131 Broadway
As you drive along Highway 101 between Gearhart and Warrenton, it’s easy to assume that this landscape of rolling green hills dotted with trees and houses looks much as it always has, perhaps with a few less trees and a few more houses. Nothing could be further from the truth for this once dynamic stretch of the coast! On Wednesday, February 15th at 6pm at the Seaside Public Library, Listening to the Land welcomes local geologist Tom Horning, who will share stories and images of the shifting landscape of the Clatsop Plains.
Horning has been collecting historic photographs of the Clatsop Plains for years, some dating back to the early 1930s. His collection includes illuminating aerial photographs and dramatic images of a vast sea of sand dunes that moved and changed with the winds, documenting human actions that effectively turned the shifting sands into the stable hills that you see today. Come find out more about the story of the landscape that you drive past each day and where some of you have lived for years. If just a few things had turned out differently, you might be shoveling sand instead of mowing your lawn.
Listening to the Land is a monthly winter speaker series presented by North Coast Land Conservancy and the Necanicum Watershed Council. Programs take place at the Seaside Public Library on the third Wednesday of the month at 6pm from October through April.
