Episode 1:  Finding the Clatskanie Falls
Channel: Wild Columbia
Date: 2022-02-16

Matt and Jonathan go searching for the Clatskanie Falls, which are not marked or photographed anywhere online but only mentioned in old documents which refer to a fish ladder built there in 1950. View more photos and details at https://wildcolumbia.org/

00:00 Hiking logging roads and bushwacking our way down. Encounter "hair ice" and a yellow-bordered taildropper slug.

03:01 Reaching the river and making a river crossing. Find juvenile salmonoids and the first Columbia Torrent Salamander of the day.

05:45 We find the waterfall! An American Dipper comes to visit us and we explore Falls Creek with another torrent salamander. 

08:18 Hiking out on elk trails and dead roads.