Conifers (cone-bearing trees) are the major plant group in Oregon in terms of numbers and biomass. No group of plants has played a greater role …

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Since the turn of the twentieth century, two prominent features of the Oregon Coast have been the stunning beauty of its landscape and the dependence …

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Connie McCready was the second woman to serve as mayor of Portland, at the end of a fourteen-year political career that included two terms …

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Constance Fowler was a painter, printmaker, author, and educator during a career that spanned more than sixty years. Best known for the expressive realism of …

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began building the Cascade Canal and Locks in 1878, a time when wheat exports from the upper Columbia River …

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This document is a contract between the Seufert Brothers Company, which ran a salmon and fruit cannery in The Dalles, and Seid Chuck, a Chinese …

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On January 5, 1945, the State of Oregon executed Robert Folkes, a twenty-one-year-old Black railroad worker and labor unionist. His arrest, trial, imprisonment, and futile …

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This photograph was published in the Oregon Journal on June 5, 1932. It shows employees of the Pacific Spruce lumber mill working in a co-operative …

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The Coos Bay estuary is a semi-enclosed, elongated series of sloughs and tidewater streams that drains approximately 825 square miles of southern Oregon's rugged Coast …

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The steam donkey, invented in 1880, greatly increased the efficiency of logging operations in Oregon’s forests. It replaced animal labor, which could not work as …

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