Ancient (as much as 17,000-year-old) lava beds, including whole fields of bolders blasted from an exploding volcano, permeate many pine-covered hillsides of the Willamette National Forest, west of Bend in Central Oregon

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Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-12)
Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.