Natural World: Rock Creek Wilderness

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Published September 11, 2014 at 5:29 AM PDT

Rock Creek Wilderness is one of three small virgin coastal rainforest areas preserved by the Wilderness Act of 1984 on the Central Oregon Coast. This meeting of land and sea is dramatic and inspiring.

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