Read the following paragraphs introducing Portland‚ Oregon. Notice that each paragraph focuses on a different aspect of the city. Portland‚ Oregon is located in the northwest of the United States. Both the Columbia and the Willamette river run through Portland. It is the largest city in the state of Oregon. The city is famous for its proximity to the mountains and the ocean‚ as well as its relaxed‚ friendly inhabitants. Approximately 500‚000 people live in Portland while the Portland metro area
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based on science and proper fish management but on emotions and the economic benefits of one group over another. The Columbia River salmon are a natural resource that plays a role in the local economy‚ local culture and greatly into local Native American culture. The total number of “native” or “wild fish” allowed to be harvested would not change as it is set by the Columbia River Compact. Voting no on this ballot measure is what every Oregonian should do when voting this November. First‚ you
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introduced to my passion of wakeboarding seven years ago with the help of one of my cousins. I remember it was a very hot‚ sunny day in August down on the Columbia River near Chelan. When I first started growing up I was very sketchy about the Columbia River since it was very cold and for some reason I was always intimidated to be around that river. At the time‚ I was very nervous about trying this new experience. With the help of my cousin on the beach I was able to be up riding a wakeboard within
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send the exports. Transportation was damaged by ash fall‚ mudslides‚ floods‚ and the blast. As a result that damaged 63 miles of roads‚ about 25 bridges‚ and blocked the Columbia River. The highest of all the bridges in the National Forest Service Land damaged was a high steel- girder. Also‚ nine bridges by the Toutle River. The combination of damage to roads and bridges was about $112 million dollars. A result of Mt. St. Helens blow was mudslides in the
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for the creation of alternative futures for various regions (Buffalo Commons as Regional Metaphor). The region surrounding the Columbia River is one of the metaphors that can be found for the term “Buffalo Commons”. In this region a serious debate is taking place over the removal of some of the dams along the river. By shifting the economic dependency on the river to alternative sources there is a hope that the Native Salmon will be able to re populate and flourish in an area were they had once
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Fort Clatsop Fort Clatsop was the encampment of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Corps of Discovery) in the Oregon Country. Located near the mouth of the Columbia River this site served as their camp from December 8‚ 1805 until their departure on March 23‚ 1806. Fort Clatsop is located along the Lewis and Clark River at the north end of the Clatsop Plains approximately 5 miles southwest of Astoria‚ the fort was the last encampment of the Corps of Discovery before embarking on their return trip east
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language interpreters by calling the project team at the project office (360-737-2726 and 503-256-2726) one week before the meeting or calling Washington State’s TTY telephone number‚ 1-800-833-6388. Meeting Summary MEETING: DATE: LOCATION: Columbia River Crossing (CRC) Project Sponsors Council December 4‚ 2009‚ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Port of Portland‚ 121 NW Everett Street‚ Portland‚ OR ATTENDEES: Adams‚ Sam Bragdon‚
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http://www.jstor.org "When Dans Weren’t Damned: The Public Power Crusade and Visions of the Good Life in the Pacific Northwest in the 1930st* Wesley Arden Dick Albion College Yourpower is turningour darknessto dawn‚ roll on‚ Columbia‚ roll on! -Woody Guthrie‚ "RollOn Columbia."(1941) In EncountersWith the Archdruid‚ 1971 biographical account of a environmentalistDavid Brower‚writer John McPhee comments that for conservationists‚ there is something special about dams‚ "something-as conversation problems
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about the life of a salmon. Salmon are born in freshwater rivers‚ and after a time‚ sometimes months or even years they head out to the ocean where they will make an amazing journey. “Some Pacific salmon’s range extends from central California up and around the Pacific Rim and down the Asian coast to Japan.” This is almost nothing to the long trip home many have to take‚ some even traveling up to thousand miles through the Columbia River and into the Rockies‚ and some travel even farther than that
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new opportunities in the west and had started the trip with high hopes‚ traveling the trail in ox-drawn wagons (Tindall‚ Shi 502). The journey however‚ was extremely difficult. Traveling the 2‚000 mile trail‚ many of them walked along it barefooted. Rivers were hard to cross and the weather didn’t help either. The biggest problem however‚ was a disease called Cholera which claimed the lives of many travelers‚ averaging one grave every 80 yards along the trail (Tindall‚ Shi 503). Along the way however
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