When Frank Herbert saw how ecologists had manipulated the sands of Oregon's coast, it would influence his sci-fi novel Dune – but in the present day, that human intervention has triggered ...

The Oregon Dunes is 32,000 acres from Florence to Coos Bay that offers endless sand dunes, forests, rivers and lakes.

KGW's Grant McOmie recently visited the Oregon Dunes via the John Dellenback Dunes Trail at the Eel Creek Campground.