Butte Falls, a community of slightly over 400 people, is the smallest incorporated city in Jackson County. Located on the densely forested Big Butte Plateau …

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Situated near the confluence of the Williamson and Sprague Rivers, the area near the Chiloquin townsite served as a seasonal camp for Indigenous peoples for …

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Salem, the capital of Oregon, is located at a crossroads of trade and travel on former prairie lands along the Willamette River. The city …

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The rugged upland watershed of the Clackamas River lies within the Mount Hood National Forest. The river winds through the northern Oregon Cascades about thirty …

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The Columbia River Gorge is a striking natural landscape of mountains, bluffs, and cliffs that border the Columbia River as it passes through the Cascade …

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Crater Lake National Park, which the U.S. Congress set aside in 1902, is a focal point in the Cascade Range for more than a half …

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Dead Indian Road is one of the oldest trans-Cascade travel routes in southern Oregon, connecting Ashland and the Rogue River Valley with the Upper Klamath …

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During the late summer of 1910, a searing drought combined with high-velocity August windstorms to create a fiery holocaust in the forests of the Pacific …

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The John Day fossil beds in north-central Oregon have one of the world’s most complete records of organisms fossilized during the Cenozoic Era (past 66 …

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Born into slavery in North Carolina in 1818, John Dudley Mathews (née John Mask) was a stock breeder and grain farmer and a respected …

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