Introduction to Chronosequence:

Repeated photography of the same scene over seasons and years has long been used by artists and scientists to document landscape change. This technique is especially relevant after major scene-changing events, such as wildfire, volcanic eruptions, and human land use activities. For this project, we selected 25 distinct photopoints that represent different forest conditions. During the first three years we photographed each photopoint 17 times in order to record the changing landscape following the fire. Here is a sampling of the most interesting changes. Note the abundance of vegetation, its changes over seasons and years, and the collapse of dead and living trees. And note your own emotional responses as you view the changes in the land.

Photopoint FRR 2

This location is on the Finn Rock Bridge looking down the McKenzie River to the prow of an island which captured a jam of large wood floated into place before the fire. The fierce Sept 2020 wind blew a blizzard of embers down the valley, toppling trees, and igniting the log jam and patches of forest on the island, valley floor, and valley walls.