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  • University of Portland

    "Founded on a bluff and run on that principle," as historian Jim Covert writes, the University of Portland was born on the morning of September …

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  • University of Portland Pilots women's soccer

    The women’s soccer team is the most successful athletic club at the University of Portland (UP), with multiple national championships and other awards. The team …

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  • University of Western States

    The University of Western States has been a fixture of the Oregon healthcare community since 1904. The college began at the turn of the twentieth …

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  • Untide Press

    The Untide Press (1943-1951) was a small poetry press founded at Camp Angel, a Civilian Public Service (CPS) site near Waldport. It was one of …

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  • Urban Growth Boundary

    Each urban area in Oregon is required to define an Urban Growth Boundary (UGB). Housing tracts, shopping malls, and other kinds of urban development are …

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  • Urban Indians in Oregon

    The Portland Metro area rests on traditional village sites of the Chinook, Clackamas, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Kalapuya, Molalla, Multnomah, Tualatin, and Wasco, among other peoples, …

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  • Ursula K. Le Guin (1929 - 2018)

    Ursula K. Le Guin, one of Oregon’s preeminent writers, was born Ursula Kroeber in 1929 in Berkeley, California, the youngest and only girl in a …

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  • US 101 (Oregon Coast Highway)

    Many places on the Oregon coast were virtually inaccessible in the early twentieth century. Small fishing villages existed as remote outposts, separated by rocky headlands …

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  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, a hybrid military and civilian federal agency, developed Oregon's water transportation infrastructure and played a major role in the …

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  • U.S. Bureau of Land Management

    The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) administers 15.7 million acres of federal lands in Oregon, over one-quarter of the state's land base. About 13.5 million …

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