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Native American Loggers in Oregon
In pre-settlement times, native peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast harvested trees to build canoes, to make planks for plankhouses, or to create works of …
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Oregon Forests and Climate Change
How climate change affects Oregon forests and how those forests affect climate change are complex, multilayered, and urgent topics. According to a 2013 report by …
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The Northern Great Basin During the Ice Age
During the Ice Age, from about 25,000 to 11,700 years ago, the Northern Great Basin in present-day Oregon and northern Nevada was in many ways …
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Apserkahar (Chief Joe)
In the 1850s, Apserkahar, also known as Chief Joe, led one of the two principal bands of Native Americans living in the western Rogue Valley. …
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Big Summit Prairie
Located in the heart of the Ochoco Mountains, Big Summit Prairie is known for its diversity of wildflowers and birds. Privately owned, the Prairie is …
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Bonneville Power Administration
In 1937, the impending completion of Bonneville Dam (1938) and progress on Grand Coulee Dam (completed 1941) required an agency to make use of the …
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Cascadia Cave
Cascadia Cave, near the South Santiam River, is one of the most significant cultural resources of the Indigenous peoples of the Cascade Mountains and the …
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Columbia River
The River
For more than ten millennia, the Columbia River has been the most important and intensively used part of Oregon’s natural landscape. The river’s main …
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Coquille
The city of Coquille (pronounced ko-KEEL), a wood-products manufacturing community and the Coos County seat, is located in southwest Oregon about twenty-five miles up the …
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Crisis in the Klamath Basin (documentary film)
The 1958 KGW-TV documentary Crisis in the Klamath Basin broke important new ground for producer Tom McCall, the genre of documentary television, and above …
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