Salmonberry River

The Salmonberry River is a tributary of the Nehalem River, about Template:Convert long, in northwest Oregon in the United States.<ref name="Palmer"/> It drains a remote unpopulated area of the Northern Oregon Coast Range in the Tillamook State Forest about Template:Convert west-northwest of Portland. The river runs through part of the region devastated between 1933 and 1951 by a series of wildfires known as the Tillamook Burn.<ref name="OE">Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>

It rises in northeastern Tillamook County, near its border with Washington County, and flows west-northwest through the mountains, joining the Nehalem from the southeast about Template:Convert northeast of the city of Nehalem.<ref name="Benchmark Atlas">Template:Cite book</ref>

The river's name comes from the salmonberry plant, Rubus spectabilis.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Railroad

An excursion railway and dinner train, the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad (OCSR), travels up the Nehalem River canyon from Wheeler to the mouth of the Salmonberry.<ref name="OCSR Dinner Train">Template:Cite web</ref> The train to the Salmonberry is part of an excursion-train network operated by the OCSR, a non-profit organization run by volunteers, on track formerly used by the Southern Pacific Railroad and the Port of Tillamook Bay Railroad.<ref name="OCSR About Us">Template:Cite web</ref> The railway track continues up the Salmonberry for Template:Convert, but flooding and erosion damaged it so severely that it was closed in 2007.<ref name="Palmer"/>

The Wild Salmon Center and other conservation groups concerned about salmon and steelhead runs on the Nehalem and the Salmonberry prefer that the track along the Salmonberry remain closed.<ref name="Palmer"/> Of particular concern are landslides and herbicide spraying along the railway tracks in the river's riparian zones.<ref name="Wild Salmon"/> Both kinds of incursion can harm fish and incubating fish eggs.<ref name="Wild Salmon"/>

See also

• List of rivers of Oregon