And that's why they call it Blue Hill Avenue
By adamg - 3/18/09 - 10:50 am
Ophis takes a 7 a.m. shot down Blue Hill Avenue that makes it look like the main street in some Oregon logging town - if they used T buses to move the logs.
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Where's the fire?
By Ron Newman - 3/18/09 - 1:05 pm
Sure looks like some building on the left side of the avenue is burning. I don't think this part of the city has any factories that would generate this amount of smoke.
I think it was steam--it
By ophis (not verified) - 3/18/09 - 2:21 pm
I think it was steam--it didn't last
We've seen mysterious "steam" from time to time...
By Michael Kerpan - 3/18/09 - 7:47 pm
...in that same vicinity -- when looking at the Blue Hills from the corner of Metropolitan and Poplar (in Roslindale).
How did Oregon get all those
By Michael Pahre - 3/18/09 - 7:24 pm
How did Oregon get all those deciduous trees? Must be that arboreal teleportation machine.
Deciduous Trees
By SwirlyGrrl - 3/18/09 - 8:46 pm
There are areas of the Coast Range that naturally have - or used to have - a higher percentage of deciduous trees. Not the percentage you see here, more like about half.
The logging companies like to kill them because they shade out the more lucrative Douglass fir, particularly the seedlings. Hence the use of dioxin-laden herbicides during the 1960s and up into the 1970s, when the first lawsuits hit.
They timber interests still selectively destroy deciduous trees in the Coast Range and western foothills of the Cascades.
Roseburg ...
The steam and the hill effect do look familiar to me ... steam rises from the ponds at the paper mill. Otherwise, the lanes are too narrow and numerous, the lights aren't timed together, and there are overall too many vehicles.