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Friday, October 24th, 2008

Are you an Ore-fornian?

Cheryl Nelson
Cave Junction, OR

by Cheryl Nelson
Sacramento, CA
Ore-fornian noun: Any native Californian who relocates to Oregon, falls in love with the place, and eventually decides they prefer the Oregon lifestyle better (for any number of reasons) so they end up staying there forever.
I moved to Cave Junction, Oregon in 1979 as a college student. I fell [...]



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Monday, September 29th, 2008

Changing Directions

Margaret Garrington
Ashland, Oregon

by Margaret Garrington
Ashland, OR
In 1977 my first visit to Oregon changed the direction of my life. Working as a land use planner in Arizona, Oregon was already on my radar because of the state’s progressive land use laws. Oregon was often cited as unique in the country because of the strong protections for farms, [...]



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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Oregon’s Moon Tree

The Oregon Travel Information Council
Salem Moon Tree

The Oregon Travel Information Council
The Moon Tree (Pseudotsuga menziesii) is a Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir raised from a seed carried to the moon by Apollo 14 astronaut Stuart Roosa in 1971. 
Although Roosa was a native of Oklahoma, he was no stranger to Oregon. While in college, he worked summers here as a smoke jumper and as a surveyor.  Roosa [...]