Oregon150

TREES

tyler
o.c

by Tyler Eiason
Oregon City, OR
Oregon City is quickly becoming one giant urban area. It seems like every day more trees are being chopped down and fields are being leveled for development. When I was a kid I remember fields and forests, but these days every thing seems a few shades duller.
Oregon City has been [...]

Jo Davis’ Oregon Story

Jo Davis
Salem

Listen to Jo Davis’ Oregon Story, as told to Jill Severson on Statehood Day, February 14th, 2009.

The Log Landing In Western Oregon 1947

Alice Stroud Williamson
Western Oregon Logging

by Alice Stroud Williamson
La Grande, OR

My mother and step-father owned Benter Logging Company. We moved to Oregon in 1947. This is a picture of a log landing taken in the Cascade Mountains in Western Oregon 1947.

When I Think About Oregon

Jessica Abney

by Jessica Abney
Newport, OR
When I think about Oregon,
I think about my amazing friends.
When I think about my amazing friends,
I think about love.
When I think about love,
I think about breath-taking kisses.
When I think about breath-taking kisses,
I think about the rain.
When I think about the rain,
I think about no umbrellas.
When I think about no umbrellas,
I think about [...]

It’s Our Fire

Kelsey
My Home

By Kelsey Jensen
Oregon City, OR
The leaves slowly begin to die as the bitter cold wind nips at them and at my nose. As the leaves’ color progresses into a red-yellowish sight, the trees seem to freeze and shiver from fall’s harsh declining degrees. From my little blue room window I see the sadness [...]

Oregon Start to Finish

Shayla
Waldport

by Shayla
Waldport, OR
I didn’t move here, I was born here. I don’t know anything else. I live on the coast where it’s sunny one hundred days out of the year. That’s a lot of rain and it’s also cold. During our summers 70°F is hot. If you subtract weather from the equation you get smoked [...]

Oregon the Beautiful

Bayley Wallace
newport

by Bayley Wallace
Newport, OR
Oregon, the state of green trees and rain. What can I say- it rains half the time and never gets above 50 degrees and yet Oregon residents still are able to do their daily work. Where else does it snow on the beach, an amazing life time experience that you will never [...]

Imprisoned by Mother Nature

Kc Steensen
Oregon

by KC Steensen
Newport, OR
I was born on the Oregon coast in Newport, and brought into this world by a loving family. Only to be imprisoned by a possessive Mother Nature. No matter what time of year, it is always raining, always windy, and always the same temperature.
However there are amazing breaks in the tempest, amazing [...]

The Wild that We Traverse

Katherine Rose
Yachats River Valley

by Katherine Rose
Yachats, OR
Ancient REI, Columbia, Gortex and other well-worn articles of outdoor gear collect themselves at the doorway from the recesses of our basement. The bright aqua and cool greens of the thrift-store-special-equipment wear the scars of the wild of which they have traversed. The small threads of the backpacks and tents [...]

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 [...]

My Oregon Song

Kristen Owen
Seaside, OR

Kristen Owen
Broadway Middle School
Seaside, Oregon
When I first thought about writing this story I thought “this won’t be that exciting,” but I was presented with a choice to write a song and I took that option up immediately. This song tells about what Oregon is like, and if anything changed, what I would miss:
The oceans are [...]