Round Lake Christian Camp

Holodiscus Technical, nor its products are not affiliated with, recommended by, or part of Round Lake or its nonprofit corporation in any way.

That being said, it's a lovely area and a worthy cause.

http://roundlakechristiancamp.org/

The camp was burned in the B&B Fire of 2003:

http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/centraloregon/fires/2003/b-b/index.shtml

Photos courtesy of Wes Woolhiser ©2003

The camp has been partially rebuilt and is open for campers and visitors during the summer season. Take a look at what has been done so far:

http://roundlakechristiancamp.org/ 

A “carpet” of lupines covering thousands of acres two years after the 2003 B&B Complex fires. Gorgeous to look at and the sweet smell of the May 2005 breeze so filled with the scents of purple, blue and white lupines is hard to describe.

For the aspiring biologist and ecologist: lupines are a legume and a nitrogen-fixer. The fire burned 91,915 acres to one degree or another, and much of this was opened up to fire-colonizing species of plants. The seed-bed of lupines, plus those brought in by the wind allowed an explosion of growth of several species of lupine, as shown in the photo. With one growth season, lupines increased soil nitrogen, added food for small mammals, browse for deer and organic matter for the next generation of plants. Soil nitrogen is vaporized by high intensity fire and so nitrogen-fixers such as lupines are important colonizers for the area affected by the B&B Complex.

Eventually, brush species will grow up to take the place of smaller plants and this is happenning currently. Manzanita, snowbrush, huckleberry and rose species are common to the Round Lake area. Trees take longer to recover. Hundred foot tall black cottonwoods, white pines and 150 to 200 foot grand firs, noble firs and other overstory species will take more than 200 years to reach the heights that they had. (Populus balsamifera, Pinus monticola, Abies procera, Abies gradnis, etc.)