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National Forests in Oregon, 1892 to 1933
The first forest reserves in the state were established in 1892-1893, although management of the federal forests did not begin until the summer of 1898. …
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National Forest Timber for Sale
These documents describe an early timber sale in the Malheur National Forest. The first document is a newspaper advertisement for the sale, which took place …
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National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center
The National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center is located five miles east of Baker City, along a stretch of ruts left by the wagons …
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National Reclamation Act (1902)
When Congress passed the National Reclamation Act in 1902, the measure set in motion the dramatic transformation of arid sections of the American West to …
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National Wild and Scenic Rivers in Oregon
The world's first and most extensive system of protected rivers began with congressional passage of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act in 1968. The rivers …
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Native American Agricultural Labor
As early as the 1830s, when French Canadians associated with the Hudson's Bay Company began establishing the French Prairie farming region in the Willamette Valley …
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Native American Cultures
Then Coyote said, People shall spear salmon, they will go to get food, to one another will they go to get food; one another they …
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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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Native Americans, Pendleton Round-Up
When Captain Meriwether Lewis passed through the Columbia Plateau in the spring of 1806, he wrote that he had not seen “a single horse which …
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Native American Tobacco Use and Cultivation in Western North America
Tobacco is native to the Americas, including in the Pacific Northwest, where it was harvested and often cultivated for thousands of years. Introduced to Europe …
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