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Deal would add public land near Lower Table Rock
Tuesday, October 07, 2008 | No comments posted.
MEDFORD (AP) — The Nature Conservancy is negotiating to buy more than 1,700 acres of ranch land near Lower Table Rock.
The conservancy would then sell the geologically rich area to a state or federal agency.
Nature Conservancy spokesman Stephen Anderson says the goal is to get the land into public ownership and ensure public access.
Geologists believe Lower Table Rock, and its sister feature Upper Table Rock, are the last traces of a vast lava flow 7 million years ago from Olson Mountain, an extinct shield volcano just east of Lost Creek Lake.
Geologists believe the vast majority of the flows eroded, leaving only the two horseshoe-shaped plateaus that have become signature features of the Rogue Valley.
The conservancy would then sell the geologically rich area to a state or federal agency.
Nature Conservancy spokesman Stephen Anderson says the goal is to get the land into public ownership and ensure public access.
Geologists believe Lower Table Rock, and its sister feature Upper Table Rock, are the last traces of a vast lava flow 7 million years ago from Olson Mountain, an extinct shield volcano just east of Lost Creek Lake.
Geologists believe the vast majority of the flows eroded, leaving only the two horseshoe-shaped plateaus that have become signature features of the Rogue Valley.
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