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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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North Campus site, Oregon State Hospital
The Oregon State Hospital (originally called the Oregon State Insane Asylum until 1913) is Oregon’s oldest continuing institution for mental health treatment. Opened in 1883, …
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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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