Haystack Rock will erode in the next 2 or 3 millennia, geologists say

CANNON BEACH, Ore. – An iconic part of the Oregon coastline is slowly getting erased.

Geologists predict Oregon’s iconic Haystack Rock will erode away in the next 2,000 to 3,000 years.

According to The Daily Astorian, volunteers and staff with the Haystack Rock Awareness Program (HRAP) say the rock is already changing in front of their eyes.

They say the damage has already started, now having to take extra precautions for visitors because large chunks of the rock keep falling off.

Officially recognized as a program operated by the city of Cannon Beach in 1985, HRAP has spawned marine biologists who gazed at their first intertidal creatures in the tidepools at the base of Haystack Rock and conservationists who spotted their first nesting birds on the rock through telescopes placed on the beach. MORE ABOUT THE HRAP<>><>><>>