areas to avoid in portland
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Yes O&C lands. Oregon California Railroad. BLM (Public) and private logging companies own now.
The area to avoid is where the thick cloud cover is... known as "the valley" where all the people are.
The Cascade mountains to the east. Standing in the Cascades look west across the tops of the shorter mountains see across problematic area ..."the valley", and there is the Coast Range...then the Pacific.
Go past the Cascades and miles of high desert, then more mountains.
Wind storms & fires can be dangerous, trees fall down by the hundreds. You can be trapped, one road in, no help, no way out.
And it takes a team of chainsaws & heavy equipment to clear.
Relatively new Semi dormant volcanos, huge land slides, forest fires, a huge fault out in the Pacific past time for a huge earth quake, rattlesnakes in the lower elevations out in the desert... then worst of all, there's the control freak, commie politicians, down in "the valley".
Never go to Portland, it's worse than the movie "Escape From LA." A real shit hole.
The Cascade mountains to the east. Standing in the Cascades look west across the tops of the shorter mountains see across problematic area ..."the valley", and there is the Coast Range...then the Pacific.
Go past the Cascades and miles of high desert, then more mountains.
Wind storms & fires can be dangerous, trees fall down by the hundreds. You can be trapped, one road in, no help, no way out.
And it takes a team of chainsaws & heavy equipment to clear.
Relatively new Semi dormant volcanos, huge land slides, forest fires, a huge fault out in the Pacific past time for a huge earth quake, rattlesnakes in the lower elevations out in the desert... then worst of all, there's the control freak, commie politicians, down in "the valley".
Never go to Portland, it's worse than the movie "Escape From LA." A real shit hole.
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Lake Oswego is 0.8% black.
The state has a very low percentage of black residents, though. Only 2.2% of Oregon's population is black. The state constitution banned settlement by blacks to discourage free blacks from relocating there. Oregon banned slavery in 1843 to keep blacks in servitude from being located there. In 1844 they amended the law to provide some time for slaveholders to remove their property under penalty of manumission should they fail to do so. Once freed, they could not remain. Males had two years to leave, and females had three (guess here, but that was so the man could find a place to settle and then send for his wife).
Oddly, all of this was more of a threat than reality, but the law effectively discouraged free blacks from settling there. I have found only one black farmer who moved over the Columbia River voluntarily to avoid the law (see link below). There were so few blacks in the state (128) that their white farmer neighbors took up for them, and the law basically was not enforced.
Oregon was the only state admitted to the union with an exclusion clause. Oregon removed it in 1926.
Black Exclusion Laws in Oregon
Oregon's racial makeup has been shaped by three Black exclusion laws that were in place during much of the region's early history. These laws, all later rescin…
www.oregonencyclopedia.org
The low percentage is an artifact of history and the fact Oregon has never had a robust economic growth period in industry that attracted a large population of blacks to emigrate for work, such as, for example, Detroit.
You could stay up at Timberline for a couple nights on Mt Hood. I’d rather do that than be in Portland. I honestly can’t think of anything to recommend in Portland. Last ten years have really gone downhill in downtown. If you want to stay in town I’d stay around the SE side, Lake O, West Linn, Oregon City. Downtown OC is pretty cool. Rivershore hotel is right on the river with a good view in OC.
How long have lived in Lake Oswego? Did you hear they are going to have to open up access the lake to the public?Lake Oswego is 0.8% black.
The state has a very low percentage of black residents, though. Only 2.2% of Oregon's population is black. The state constitution banned settlement by blacks to discourage free blacks from relocating there. Oregon banned slavery in 1843 to keep blacks in servitude from being located there. In 1844 they amended the law to provide some time for slaveholders to remove their property under penalty of manumission should they fail to do so. Once freed, they could not remain. Males had two years to leave, and females had three (guess here, but that was so the man could find a place to settle and then send for his wife).
Oddly, all of this was more of a threat than reality, but the law effectively discouraged free blacks from settling there. I have found only one black farmer who moved over the Columbia River voluntarily to avoid the law (see link below). There were so few blacks in the state (128) that their white farmer neighbors took up for them, and the law basically was not enforced.
Oregon was the only state admitted to the union with an exclusion clause. Oregon removed it in 1926.
Black Exclusion Laws in Oregon
Oregon's racial makeup has been shaped by three Black exclusion laws that were in place during much of the region's early history. These laws, all later rescin…
The low percentage is an artifact of history and the fact Oregon has never had a robust economic growth period in industry that attracted a large population of blacks to emigrate for work, such as, for example, Detroit.
https://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/ne...cle_a03f1606-f87e-11ef-aa34-836c2d691f16.html
We're not actually going to portland to visit, just sleep. Once we check in we're outta there for the day then coming back later at night. Next morning, something, head on out til bed time.
The McMenamins in Kalama is a cool place to stay and closer to St Helens. Or if you’re into casinos, Ilani has a really nice hotel and is closer to St Helens as well. If you’re doing other day things around Portland I still think Rivershore in OC would make a good home base for a couple days.
I have never lived there, and no, I had not heard. Thanks for sharing the news article.
Probably not in patches like out west. The east has goofy ass property lines that can squiggle all over the place and the eastern hardwoods generally don't get clear like that, just select cut/thinning.
Oh, yeah, that is all just forested coastal mountains. I grew up just off the left edge at the top of the map on top, on the coast. Where it says Mapleton and then Siuslaw River Bridge. About twice the distance from Mapleton to Tiernan west is my hometown and the Pacific Ocean.
All of that area around Gunter is privately owned land. The Siuslaw National Forest is west of there and is much larger north of the Siuslaw River than south of it.
Yeah, that's a fact. I really loved living on the Olympic peninsula when I got stationed at NBK Bangor back in '12-'14. It hooked my heart so badly.....I moved back on to the peninsula in '22 when I got out.
Seattle's a shit hole....Portland is even worse. But, damn....You drive 30 minutes east of Seattle or an hour (south and then) west.....The beauty of the Olympic mountains(or north & south cascades) and the pine trees really sucks you in. Having the hood canal as my office, sitting right under the Olympics was just awful, lemme tell ya. We'd be coming on quarterly training cycles and short for underway hours....So, we'd "get underway for training" zip up to Port Townsend, grab lunch downtown by the docks, and head back. It made for a really shitty place to work.
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Pine trees?
Those are Douglas Fir trees, my friend. And Blue Spruce, and western Hemlock, and Cedar. There can be some coastal pine, depending upon where you are, but those trees are ugly and not really what you are seeing on the Olympic Peninsula.
Those are Douglas Fir trees, my friend. And Blue Spruce, and western Hemlock, and Cedar. There can be some coastal pine, depending upon where you are, but those trees are ugly and not really what you are seeing on the Olympic Peninsula.
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