In December 1983, the Oregon Natural Resources Council (now called Oregon Wild) sued the U.S. Forest Service over its allocation of roadless areas in Oregon …

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The Oregon Nurses Association (ONA) serves as a professional organization of registered nurses and as a collective bargaining agent for its members. ONA is part …

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The Oregon Old Time Fiddlers Association Inc. (OOTFA) is a nonprofit organization established "to promote, preserve and perpetuate Old Time Fiddling and Old Time music." …

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The Oregon Plan, implemented in May 1942, led to the organization of the first Japanese American farm labor camp during World War II. The camp, …

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In the twentieth century, women and minorities made modest gains in Oregon’s elective politics. Nan Wood Honeyman, a Democrat and the daughter of C.E.S. Wood, …

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The first steam locomotive in the Pacific Northwest—the "Oregon Pony"—was used in the early 1860s to portage steamboat passengers and goods past the Cascade Rapids, …

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The first issue of the weekly Oregon Posten (Oregon Post), the state’s largest Swedish newspaper, was published on December 2, 1908, with Fredrik …

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In the early months of 1847, a group of Willamette Valley farmers organized the Oregon Producers’ Exporting and Importing Company (OPEIC). The farmers wanted to …

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The Oregon Queer History Collective, formerly known as the  Gay & Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest, was founded in October 1994 by a small …

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“The Oregon boundary question,” historian Frederick Merk concluded, “was a diplomatic problem involving a kernel of reality and an enormous husk.” The eventual existence of …

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