North Coast Land Conservancy board member Randall Henderson is dedicated to conservation. He’s also passionate about flying his RV-6 airplane, which he built and keeps at the Seaside Municipal Airport. And he’s a decent photographer. After retiring as a software engineer last year, he also joined Lighthawk, a nonprofit that works with scientists and conservation organizations such as NCLC to, according to its website, “reveal the earth in ways that inspire conservation action.”
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Peaks of the Rainforest Reserve rising above Haystack Rock on Cannon Beach
In December Randall returned to the sky over the proposed Rainforest Reserve; the result is what you see in these photographs. It’s one thing to picture the reserve on a map (click and scroll down), but to see it from the air reveals the habitat connectivity between the mountain summits and the nearshore ocean in a more tangible and profound way.
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Onion Peak summit topped with cloudcap
Since 2016 North Coast Land Conservancy has been working to raise $10 million to conserve this 3,500-acre property adjacent to Oswald West State Park. We’re getting close; as of the end of 2020 we’d raised $9.5 million. With the community’s help, we hope to purchase the property as soon as this summer. Now is the time to join Randall and Jeanne Henderson and many others and become a part of this legacy project. Read about how people are investing in the Rainforest Reserve, or jump straight to our donation page.
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Basalt spires at summit of Onion Peak, and a bit of airplane wing
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Cape Falcon and Neahkahnie Mountain in Oswald West State Park, with Rainforest Reserve summits to the north
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