Trask Mountain

Infobox Mountain
Name = Trask Mountain
Photo =
Caption =
Elevation = convert|3426|ft|m|lk=on [ cite web
url = http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/ds_mark.prl?PidBox=RD1803
title = NGS Data Sheet for TRASK
publisher = U.S. National Geodetic Survey
accessdate = 2008-04-03 ]
Location = Yamhill County, Oregon, USA
Range = Northern Oregon Coast Range
Prominence = convert|3424|ft|m [ cite web
url = http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=1077
title = Peakbagger.com: Trask Mountain
accessdate = 2008-04-03 ]
Coordinates = coord|45.3714995|-123.4565007|format=dms|region:US_type:mountainGNIS|1128212accessdate|2008-04-03]
Topographic
USGS Trask Mountain
First ascent =
Easiest route = Trask Toll Road to just below the summit. [ cite web
last = Jones
first = Ken
url = http://cohp.org/or/Yamhill_1.html
title = Yamhill County High Point Trip Report
publisher = County Highpointers
accessdate = 2008-04-03 ]

Trask Mountain in the Northern Oregon Coast Range, is the tallest mountain in Yamhill County, Oregon. [ cite web
url = http://www.peakbagger.com/list.aspx?lid=13203
title = Oregon County High Points
publisher = Peakbagger.com
accessdate = 2008-04-03] It is located in the northwest corner of the county. The mountain is named for Elbridge Trask,Fact|date=May 2007 who settled west of the peak in Tillamook County in 1852.

Geology

The mountain is composed of mainly volcanic rock with some sedimentary rocks. cite web
url = http://www.co.yamhill.or.us/ybc/Assessments/NYamhill/NYChapter1.pdf
title = North Yamhill Watershed
publisher = Yamhill County
accessdate = 2008-04-03 ] Like much of the northern section of the Oregon Coast Range, the origins began around 40 million years ago during the Eocene period. During this era, sandstone and siltstone formed in the area. cite web
url = http://www.oregon.gov/ODF/STATE_FORESTS/docs/Watershed/Nehalem_Watershed_Analysis/Part_I-Ch_1-4.pdf
title = Upper Nehalem Watershed Analysis
publisher = Oregon Department of Forestry
accessdate = 2008-04-03 ] Additionally, igneous rocks and basalt flows combined with basaltic sandstone to create many of the mountainous formations. The volcanic rocks come from basalt flows that covered much of Oregon that originated from fissures in the central portion of the state. cite web
url = http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1994/of94-021/tilgeo.txt
title = Geologic Map of the Tillamook Highlands, Northwest Oregon Coast Range
puplisher = U.S. Geological Survey
accessdate = 2008-04-03 ] Additional sedimentary rock was formed more recently, around 20 million years ago.

All of the coast range lies over a convergent tectonic margin interacting with the Juan de Fuca Plate that is subducting beneath North America tectonic plate in the Cascadia subduction zone. [ cite web
url = http://www.wou.edu/las/natsci_math/geology/luckiamute/Appendix%20A%20Geology%20of%20Luckiamute%20River%20Watershed.pdf
title = Geology of the Luckiamute River Watershed, Upper Willamette Basin, Polk and Benton Counties, Oregon
publisher = Western Oregon University
accessdate = 2008-04-03 ] The mountains are created by the plunging structural arch of sedimentary and Tertiary volcanic strata that is being uplifted.

Flora and fauna

Vegetation in the area includes Sitka Spruce, Douglas-fir, Western Hemlock, Western Redcedar, Salmonberry, Red Alder, Western Sword Fern, and Vine Maple among many others. cite web
url = http://www.oregon.gov/ODF/STATE_FORESTS/docs/Watershed/Trask_Watershed_Analysis/201_Chapter1_Characterization.pdf
title = ODF: Trask River Watershed.
publisher = Oregon Department of Forestry
accessdate = 2008-04-03 ] Other plant life native to the mountains are "Coptis laciniata", Salal, Oregon-grape, and Bracken Fern. cite journal
last = Macnab
first = James A.
year = 1958
month = January
title = Biotic Aspection in the Coast Range Mountains of Northwestern Oregon
journal = Ecological Monographs
volume = Vol. 28
issue = No. 1
pages = pp. 21–54
publisher =
location =
doi = 10.2307/1942274 ] [ cite web
url = http://www.blm.gov/or/plans/surveyandmanage/MR/VascularPlants/section6.htm
title = Management Recommendations for Spleenwort-leaved Goldthread
publisher = Bureau of Land Management
accessdate = 2008-03-31 ] cite web
url = http://www.treedictionary.com/DICT2003/hardtoget/jk-64-html/index.html
title = From the Forest to the Sea: A Story of Fallen Trees
publisher = Tree Dictionary
accessdate = 2008-04-031 ]

Different insects can include spiders, beetles, and various centipedes. Mammals include weasels, chipmunks, black bears, hares and deer. Birds include kinglets, chickadees, woodpeckers, and jays.

Other

In the northwest part of the county, the mountain is in private forest land owned by Weyerhaeuser. [ cite web
last = Howbert
first = Jeff
url = http://cohp.org/or/Yamhill_3.html
title = Yamhill County High Point 2
publisher = County Highpointers
accessdate = 2008-03-31] Trask Mountain makes up a portion of the North Yamhill River headwaters that drain to the Willamette River. On its north side, drainage is to the Trask River which flows west to the Pacific Ocean. The mountain receives over 135 inches or precipitation each year. The mountain is home to a U.S. Geologic Survey seismograph station that was installed in 1991. [ cite web
url= http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/station_book/T_BOOK.html#TKO
title= Seismograph Station Codes Listed Alphabetically: T. |publisher=U.S. Geological Survey
accessdate = 2008-03-31 ] Previously, the peak was home to a fire lookout station that was abandoned in the 1970s. [ cite web
last= McOmie
first=Grant
url= http://64.94.113.71/stories/78298.html
title= When 'Cloud Girls' watched over the woods
publisher= katu.com
accessdate = 2008-03-31 ] There are plans to construct a 50 Megawatt wind power facility atop the mountain beginning in 2009. [ cite web
url=http://www.everpower.com/trask.html
title=Trask Mountain: Yamhill County, Oregon
publisher=Everpower Renewables
accessdate= 2008-03-31 ]

In 1997, Dundee, Oregon resident Lee John Knoch beat Robert Allen Holliday nearly to death and buried him alive on Trask Mountain. [ cite news
last = Tims
first = Dana
title = Dundee man guilty of 1997 murder
publisher = "The Oregonian"
date = March 281998]

See also

* Tillamook Burn

References

External links

* cite web
url = http://www.flickr.com/photos/12926710@N00/417859584/
title = Picture of lookout tower in 1980s
publisher = flickr.com
accessdate = 2008-04-03