Oregon

The Beaver State

Oregon boasts a exceptionally diverse economy along with a robust high-tech market with abundant opportunities in a variety of occupational fields. Oregon has a vibrant arts community. The state offers a thriving music scene, an amazing array of restaurants and entertainment options plus an incredible diversity of natural beauty unsurpassed in most states. If beautiful scenery is what you are looking for, it can be found here in places like the peaks of the Cascade Mountains, the high deserts of central Oregon, the coast with pristine beaches, the waterfalls of the Columbia River Gorge and the majestic Wallowa Mountains in far eastern Oregon. There is something for everyone to appreciate and explore.

Committed to ensuring that their state continues to be a desirable place for people to live, work and raise a family the Oregon Progress Board was formed in 1989 to oversee this vast state strategic plan. The Progress Board aims to help Oregonians "shape their preferred future" by joining the public, businesses and policy-makers for strategic statewide planning and review.

In Oregon quality of life was the second-most-common reason for moving to the state. Nearly all of Oregon's beaches are public domain and provide Oregonians with almost 300 miles of coastal recreation and scenery. Oregon has long been famous for groundbreaking environmental legislation and land-use planning, as well as a population who cares about recycling and the environment.

The lumber and wood products industry is a $3.3 billion industry. The paper and allied manufacturing industry is an $859 million industry. Oregon�s salmon-fishing industry is one of the world's largest and in agriculture Oregon leads in growing peppermint, cover seed crops, blackberries, boysenberries, loganberries, black raspberries, and hazelnuts. Oregon is second in raising hops, red raspberries, prunes, snap beans and onions. The low-cost electric power provided by dams has helped Oregon develop steadily as a manufacturing state. Leading manufactured items are lumber and plywood, metalwork, machinery, aluminum, chemicals, paper, food packing and electronic equipment.

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Quick Facts

Population: 3,700,758 as of 2006
Land Area: 95,997 sq mi. (248,632 sq km)
Per Capita personal Income: $34,784
Capital: Salem

Professional Sports Teams

Football (AFL): Portland Forest Dragons

Basketball: Portland Trail Blazers
Basketball (WNBA): Portland Fire

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That through the years, Oregon has been called the Sunshine State, Webfoot State (because of the high level of rainfall) and Hard-case State (after the evil characters who flocked to the state in its early days)? Oregon's state animal is the beaver and it is a widely recognized symbol for the state which has led the State University athletic team to be known as "the Beavers" and state to being called the Beaver State.

That Oregon's state flag pictures a beaver on its reverse side. It is the only state flag to carry two separate designs?

That Oregon has more ghost towns than any other state?

That Eugene was the first city to have one-way streets?

That at 8,000 feet deep Hells Canyon is the deepest river gorge in North America?

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