Compass American Guides Oregon

by Jewell, Judy; Vaughn, Greg

• ISBN13: 9780679000334
• ISBN10: 067900033X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-05-01
• Publisher: Fodors Travel Pubns

Summary

"In Empowering Students: Seven Strategies for a Smart Start in School and Life, educators Robert Brower and Amy Keller provide teachers with seven powerful steps that build character and promote success in students' lives. These steps include making critical distinctions; building strong and resilient relationships; avoiding negative attention; positive body language; small, positive behaviors and actions; practicing "mirror relationship building"; and understanding and accepting consequences of your actions. The character-building approach outlined in this book demonstrates that positive traits can be developed subtly, as evidenced by a multitude of stories testifying to the credibility of the concepts, and the impact of these strategies can be witnessed almost immediately. With the potential to revolutionize methods of building character and gaining success among learners, Empowering Students will be of interest to all educators."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Acknowledgments

History

Geologic History First Oregonians Ships on the Horizon Lewis and Clark Fur Trade The Lord's Work Oregon Trail Pioneers Government to the Rescue Portland Grows Up Railroads

Northeastern Oregon

John Day Country Baker City Hells Canyon Wallowa Mountains Grande Ronde Valley and La Grande Pendleton Columbia River

Central Oregon

The Dalles Columbia Plateau Warm Springs and Vicinity Prineville and Ochoco Mountains Smith Rock Sisters and Vicinity Bend and Vicinity Mount Bachelor Cascade Lakes Lava Landscapes

Southeastern Oregon

The Land History Cattle Ranching Fort Rock and Christmas Valley Lakeview Hart Mountain Burns and Vicinity Malheur Wildlife Refuge Peter French Land Steens Mountain Alvord Desert Desert Trail Owyhee Uplands

Southern Oregon

Umpqua River Grants Pass and the Rogue River Illinois River Country Oregon Caves Medford and Vicinity Jacksonville Applegate Valley Ashland Klamath Falls Crater Lake Upper Rogue and Diamond Lake

Coast

Bicycling the Coast Coastal Indians Astoria and Vicinity Tillamook Bay and Vicinity A Spit, Three Capes, and a Head Newport and Vicinity Yachats and Cape Perpetua Florence and Vicinity Oregon Dunes South Coast Bandon Port Orford Rogue River and Gold Beach Brookings

Portland and Mount Hood Loop

A Walk Through Downtown West of Downtown Eastside Portland Columbia River Gorge Loop Route Mount Hood

Willamette Valley and the Western Cascades

North Willamette Valley Wine and Hazelnut Tour Salem and Vicinity Western Cascades Eugene and McKenzie River

Practical Information

Getting There Weather About Lodging About Restaurants Lodging and Restaurants by Town Outfitters, Rafters, and Windsurfing Fly Fishing Shops Festivals and Rodeos Performing Arts

Recommended Reading

Index

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Excerpts

INTRODUCTION


Conjure up an image of Oregon and it will most likely be colored with all hues of green and gray, brimming with firs and ferns, and dampened by drizzle. This would be a fairly accurate picture of western Oregon, the area between the Pacific Ocean and the Cascade Range, but that's just one face of the state.


East of the Cascades, where volcanic peaks block Pacific rain clouds, the colors turn to gold and blue, and the horizon expands for miles. Rivers dissect northeastern Oregon; the southeast's topography is marked by fault blocks and dry basins. Psychically, eastern Oregon is The West, and western Oregon is the Northwest.


Every Oregonian, and nearly every visitor to the state, pays heed to the environment. It's unavoidable. In southeastern Oregon, you're little more than a speck in space; in the Columbia Gorge or the low, wet western Cascades, you feel like a mass of carbon and oxygen, absolutely destined to nourish a fern, with only force of will and movement keeping you from becoming green and rooted.


Oregon's giant trees and abundant fish, once taken for granted, are decreasing in number, and perhaps paradoxically, the people harvesting these resources often have the deepest connections to them. Oregonians share a concern about natural resources. Not everyone agrees on what should be done, but most everybody cares. Hikers wandering through old-growth forests may pry open a nurse log with a boot toe and suddenly experience a tidal wave of feeling for nature's cycles of decay and rebirth. Campers wandering near Frenchglen during bird migration will hear coyotes howling in the night and the wing-beats of birds thundering in the dawn, and perhaps be overwhelmed by the enormity and continuity of nature's gifts. Oregon's storytellers have long taken cues from their surroundings. Indian legends have some of the same landmarks that show up in Ursula K. LeGuin's futuristic novel, The Lathe of Heaven. The damp chill infusing Lewis and Clark's journal entries during their winter near the Oregon coast is so pervas
ive that one can only imagine the actual pages becoming water-stained and wavy from moisture. Readers enveloped by moss in Barry Lopez's River Notes and caught up in the rising, rushing river water in Ken Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion, may decide it's time to head to the dry east side of the Cascades with a copy of C. E. S. Wood's epic, "The Poet in the Desert."


Wood, a prominent Portland lawyer in the early 1900s, also reminds readers that Oregonians, however well-bred, " . . . think that it is the right of every American to go to hell and be damned if he wants to. That is not humor -- it is the truth." In contemporary Oregon culture, filmmaker Gus van Sant shows a conventions-be-damned pluck and depicts urban Portland in a light that some find a little rough-edged and unpleasant, and others find dead accurate.


No matter where an Oregonian is from, no matter what his or her livelihood, Oregonians love Oregon. Eastern Oregonians may be a little suspicious of Portlanders, and vice versa, but people are firmly rooted, with a deep sense of place and a pride in where they live. It's rare to find an Oregonian who really wants to move anywhere else. Some do it out of desperation, then immediately begin to plot their return.


While doing the research for this book, I've asked myself a number of unexpected questions, such as: Is it possible to reach perfect enlightenment while downshifting on hairpin turns on the McKenzie Pass Road, as empty Diet Coke cans clank back and forth on the backseat floor? I've begun to think so.


I also got a sense of being in the right place at the right time when, shortly after contracting to write this book, I took off for Steens Mountain, knowing the road would soon be closed by snow. As I dodged boulders on the final haul up Steens Summit, a battered van approached on its way down. We both slowed for the obligatory backroad wave, and I recognized the driver as Greg Vaughn, the photographer for this book, also racing the weather and chasing the perfect light at Kiger Gorge. Hopefully, this book will set readers on their own path toward special moments and realizations, yet be as well a useful, practical guide to the state of Oregon.

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Excerpted from Oregon by Judy Jewell, Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. Staff
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