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	Oregon Secretary of State Executive Division
		The description of the seal of the State of Oregon shall be an escutcheon, supported by 33 stars, and divided by an ordinary, with the inscription, "The Union." In chief mountains, an elk with branching antlers, a wagon, the Pacific Ocean, on which there are a British man-of-war departing and an American steamer arriving.
		ORS 186.023, governs use of the Oregon State Seal: (1) Except as authorized by the Secretary of State, no person shall knowingly use any device, or possess any device capable of such use, to emboss upon a document the seal of the State of Oregon described in ORS 186.020.
		Violations are prosecuted by the Oregon Department of Justice.
	www.sos.state.or.us /executive/stateseal (250 words)

	Blue Mountains, Oregon (Mountains)
		The Blue Mountains constitute one of the largest uplifts in Oregon and the main range, together with its spurs and offshoots, extends into several counties.
		The Blue Mountains are separated from the Wallowa Mountains by the Powder River and Grande Ronde River.
		The highest point in the Blue Mountains is Rock Creek Butte, a peak on Elkhorn Ridge a few miles west of Baker City with an elevation of 9097 feet.
	www.ohwy.com /or/b/bluemtns.htm (109 words)

	Powder River (Oregon) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It drains an area of the Columbia Plateau on the eastern side of the Blue Mountains.
		It rises in the southern Blue Mountains, along Elkhorn Ridge, approximately 20 mi (32 km) west of Baker City in eastern Baker County.
		The upper reaches of the river in the Blue Mountains are located in the Umatilla National Forest.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Powder_River_(Oregon) (203 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Blue Mountains forests (NA0505) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In the nearby mountain meadows and grasslands, herds of elk, bighorn sheep, and mule deer nibble on bunch grasses.
		The Blue Mountains ecoregion is a beautiful mosaic of habitats ranging from desert-like environments with cactuses and bunchgrass to alpine environments with snowfields and high lakes.
		Along streams and in old-growth forests of the Blue Mountains, habitats are being rapidly depleted because of extensive logging, livestock grazing, flood abatement, hydroelectric dams, and fire suppression.
	nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/na/na0505.html (414 words)

	Too Tough - Whitman Mission National Historic Site
		When the Whitman's traveled over the Blue Mountains their guide, John McLeod, a fur trader for the Hudson's Bay Company, selected the most direct route possible, suitable for horse and foot travel only.
		The rivers and greenery of the Grand Ronde Valley and the Blue Mountains gave joy, while the terrain provided the challenge and hardships.
		Although their initial route that crossed the Blue Mountains did not become the Oregon Trail, they proved that women and families could make the trip to the Oregon Country.
	www.nps.gov /whmi/orient/tough.htm (893 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Blue Mountains forests (NA0505)
		Mountainous areas include the Strawberry, Greenhorn, Elkhorn, Aldrich, and Maury Ranges, and the Ochoco, Blue, and Wallowa Mountains (Franklin and Dyrness 1973:27).
		Relief is highly variable, ranging from moderate slopes in the Blue and Ochoco Mountains to the deeply dissected and glaciated Wallowa Mountains.
		The Blue Mountains have received the most attention regarding forest health because of recent increases in conflagrations and epizootics.
	worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/na/na0505_full.html (2212 words)

	Cougar Season in Northeast Oregon Closes Nov. 15
		PORTLAND — The Blue Mountains cougar hunt zone in northeast Oregon will close to cougar hunting a half hour after sunset Friday, Nov.15, because the 2002 cougar harvest quota will be met, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife announced today.
		"Blue Mountain Additional" cougar tags are not valid elsewhere in the state.
		The Blue Mountains Zone has accounted for more than 50 percent of the total state harvest this year.
	www.dfw.state.or.us /public/NewsArc/2002News/November/110802news.htm (346 words)

	WAA Event for the Blue Mountains of NE Oregon
		This paper will focus on the section of the Blue Mountains located immediately southeast of the Columbia Basin (Fig.
		2a), and the second between 02 to 08 UTC was the result of cyclogenesis along the Oregon coast (Fig.
		in the Columbia Basin (northwest of the Blue Mountains).
	www.wrh.noaa.gov /wrh/talite0410.htm (1464 words)

	Blue Mountains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		he Blue Mountains are close to Snake River and Wallowa Mountains.
		The Blue Mountains are about 50 miles wide and 100 miles long.
		Once all the pioneers climbed the Blue Mountains, they went to Fort Walla Walla or the Columbia Gorge.
	www.beavton.k12.or.us /greenway/leahy/ot/blue_mtns.htm (169 words)

	American Forests: The blue mountains: forest out of control. (La ... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Four Oregon national forests--the Malheur, Umatilla, Wallowa-Whitman, and Ochoco--and adjacent privately owned forestlands are reeling from a combined invasion of somewhere between three and 6.5 million acres by western spruce budworms, tussock moths, pine bark beetles, root diseases, and nutrient-sapping mistletoes.
		At the Blue Mountains Natural Resources Institute in La Grande, leaders representing a broad cross-section of interests are diligently, if not desperately, working to achieve common understanding on what, if anything, can be done to gain control at this point.
		AF In late July, as this magazine was heading for the printer, a special panel convened in May released its recommendations for restoring health to the beleaguered forests of the Blue Mountains.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:13665294&... (2733 words)

	Blue Mtn Flycasters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Blue Mountain Flycasters membership comprise a group of fly fishers, all members of Oregon FFF, most of us living at the base of eastern Oregon's Blue Mountains.
		The Blue Mountains also has Oregon's highest and most beautiful drive thru byways to lake, with plenty of backcountry fly fishing at elevations from 5,000 to 10,000 feet.
		Depending on the moon phase, the fly of choice, and the weather, this is not an uncommon occurrence in our Blue Mountains and surrounding area.
	www.oregontrail.net /~blumtfly (1253 words)

	Cascadia RiSiNG! EcoDefense (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project covers a region where wildlife far outnumbers humans, where activists are few and far between, but where a legal strategy has proven extremely effective in stopping most destructive logging proposed over the past decade and more.
		With this lawsuit, Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project and Cascadia Wildlands Project seek to protect the natural values of the Deep Creek watershed including habitat for terrestrial wildlife, water quality, and redband trout populations.
		Blue Mountains is sponsoring a survey Blitz of public land timber sales the week of May 11th through the 16th (Tuesday - Sunday).
	cr.truffula.net /topic/bmbp (1009 words)

	Blue Mountains, Big Sky
		But to know this far-reaching country of blue mountains and big sky, you must leave the traffic behind and follow the bends of the backroads that take you into its heart.
		At the valley's back door are the Wallowa Mountains; at its front, the Snake River; and on the far side of the hill, the Eagle Valley and Powder River.
		At the foot of the Blue Mountains and along the banks of the Grande Ronde River lies La Grande.
	www.eoni.com /~highberg/blue_mountains.html (1880 words)

	RangeNet - Project wplgalbum - Page 1: Livestock Grazing in the Blue Mountains of Oregon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Generally the situation in the Blue Mountains of Oregon is probably not too different from the western National Forests most of you are familiar with, except that the Blues are near the center of the northwest's "Forest Health" crisis that is the result of historic logging, grazing and fire suppression practices.
		Some problems that were apparent after visits to the forest included a general hammering of riparian and road side areas, down and poorly constructed fencing, cattle in campgrounds, impacts to bull trout waters, and classic examples of browsing by cattle and other ungulates preventing aspen regeneration.
		Aspen stands in the Blue Mountains tend to be small, somewhat isolated and many are associated with streams, springs or seeps.
	www.rangenet.org /projects/wplgalbum/page1 (2405 words)

	9 - Eastern Oregon pictures of Blue Mountains; John Day Fossil Beds
		Admire the "Wheat Beneath the Blue Mts" and then it's off to see the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, vistas of past volcanism and a history lesson written in stone, attract the curious viewer.
		The Blue Mountains were named by early settlers who saw mountains bathed in the smokey fires set by the Indians.
		This entire gallery of Blue Mountains pictures is available as a unit, or as individual prints.
	www.strengthinperspective.com /mpfindor/mpgal9/mpgal9.html (266 words)

	Blue Mountains (Oregon) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The nearby (additional info and facts about Wallowa Mountains) Wallowa Mountains, east of the main range near the Snake River, are sometimes included as a subrange of the Blue Mountains.
		The range today is traversed by (additional info and facts about Interstate 84) Interstate 84, which crosses the crest of the range from northwest to southeast between Pendleton and (additional info and facts about LaGrande) LaGrande.
		The community of (additional info and facts about Baker City) Baker City sits along the southeastern flank of the range.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bl/blue_mountains_(oregon)1.htm (211 words)

	Biologists battle to restore once-abundant aspens to Oregon’s Blue Mountains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		If you had walked through the Blue Mountains in eastern Oregon 100 years ago, you would have found drainages filled with uninterrupted forests of aspen.
		In fact, the only hope for aspen in the Blue Mountains may well depend on a coalition of biologists and conservation groups.
		Researchers from Oregon State University recently found that 85 percent of all animals they studied in the Blue Mountains depend to some extent on aspen stands.
	www.rmef.org /bugle/pages/05JF/ORblue.html (634 words)

	SILICEOUS COBBLES IN A GRANDE RONDE BASALT FLOW, OREGON BUTTE, BLUE MOUNTAINS, WASHINGTON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		A Miocene basalt flow at Oregon Butte in Washington’s Blue Mountains possesses the unusual characteristic of having rounded cobbles of quartzite, sandstone and chert concentrated in a horizon near the top of the colonnade.
		Grande Ronde flows were extruded upon the Tertiary land surface prior to and during the early stages of uplift of the Blue Mountains Anticline.
		Three possible models for the incorporation of the cobbles at Oregon Butte include: a fissure crossing a stream bed, entraining the cobbles in the lava; a landslide at the time of the flow; and burrowing of the lava under cobble-bearing sand.
	gsa.confex.com /gsa/2004RM/finalprogram/abstract_72933.htm (354 words)

	Blue Ridge Mountains
		Yes we are the Blue Ridge Highlands of Virginia, and...
		Blue Ridge Online is your gateway and guide to the Blue Ridge Mountains Blue Ridge Parkway Great Smoky and Appalachian Mountain regions of NC, VA, TN, GA and WV.
		The Blue Ridge Parkway is one of the most traveled roads in the area during the Spring, Summer...
	www.ditmoi.com /Blue-Ridge-Mountains.html (774 words)

	Blue Mountains, WA - Hiking, Backpacking, Camping and Expeditions in Washington State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Blue Mountains, WA - Hiking, Backpacking, Camping and Expeditions in Washington State
		Blue Mountain, WA City life got you down?
		To access this route, descend from Twin Buttes on the Slick Ear Trail to the Wenaha River, hike downstream to the Sawtooth/Smooth Ridge Trail and then north to Oregon Butte.
	www.thecampingguide.com /articles/outdoors/Blue-Mountains-WA.asp (309 words)

	Center for Science in the Earth System
		The influence of the Madden-Julian Oscillation on precipitation in Oregon and Washington.
		Mote, P. Twentieth-century fluctuations and trends in temperature, precipitation, and mountain snowpack in the Georgia Basin-Puget Sound region.
		Mountain hemlock growth responds to climatic variability at annual and decadal scales.
	www.cses.washington.edu /db/pubs/allpubs.shtml (9610 words)

	Blue Mountains Needs Botanists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Forest vegetation sampling will be conducted in the Blue Mountains of Northeastern Oregon and will require living and working in rugged field conditions.
		We are searching for individuals knowledgeable in plant taxonomy, experienced in field identification of forest understory vegetation (Northeastern Oregon), experienced with GPS and GIS technology, and comfortable with computer spreadsheet applications.
		Trailer style housing is available at the Eastern Oregon Agriculture Experiment Station and temporary shelter in the field.
	www.brynmawr.edu /synergy/bluemountain.html (181 words)

	ALAN KAYS RESEARCH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Research is on-going in conjunction with the University of Oregon Field Geology Program ("Field Camp") and involves an early Tertiary volcanic arc sequence, the Eocene Clarno Formation, and the overlying Eocene-Oligocene flows of the John Day Formation, all well exposed along the northwest flank of the Blue Mountains uplift in north central Oregon.
		Prograde Nevadan metamorphism in the northern Klamath Mountains, Oregon: Geological Society of America Abstracts, v.
		Metamorphism in the northern Klamath Mountains, Oregon: in Miller, D.M., and Busby, C., Jurassic Magmatism and Tectonics of the North American Cordillera: Geological Society of America, Special Paper 299, p.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~dogsci/kays/rsch.html (753 words)

	Union County Tourism
		Early emigrants following the Oregon Trail passed through our picturesque valley and rested at the present-day site of La Grande before climbing the Blue Mountains towards what was being promoted as the "land of milk and honey" in the Willamette Valley.
		Nestled at the feet of the Blue Mountains on the edge of the fertile Grande Ronde Valley, La Grande is a pretty town with lots to offer travelers.
		The historic Elgin Opera House, the beautiful Oregon Trail Interpretive Park at Blue Mountain Crossing, and the Union County Museum with its wonderful "Cowboys Then and Now" exhibit are just minutes away from your hotel room.
	www.visitlagrande.com (351 words)

	ipedia.com: List of mountains of the United States Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The tallest mountains in the U.S. are overwhelmingly located in four states: Alaska, California, Colorado, and Washington.
		Mount Mitchell - highest mountain of the Appalachians, tallest mountain in North Carolina
		Mount Whitney - Tallest mountain in California, and the tallest in the contiguous United States
	www.ipedia.com /list_of_mountains_of_the_united_states.html (289 words)

	Energy Citations Database (ECD) - Energy and Energy-Related Bibliographic Citations
		Energy Citations Database (ECD) Document #6507508 - Geology of the Blue Mountains region of Oregon, Idaho, and Washington
		Geology of the Blue Mountains region of Oregon, Idaho, and Washington
		This volume reports on the geology of the Blue Mountains region, consists of six chapters having various individual authorship.^This book focuses on the stratigraphy, ages, structure, and chemical characteristics of terrestrial Cenozoic volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks of the region and on the relation of the Cenozoic volcanism to tectonism.
	www.osti.gov /energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=6507508 (142 words)

	Oregon Trail
		A short way off of Interstate Highway 84 near La Grande is a segment of the Oregon Trail preserved in a small park.
		Here the nineteenth century pioneers strggled over the Blue Mountains on their way to Western Oregon.
		Today one can walk in their footsteps and see one of the wagons that they used to transport all of their worldly goods on their five to six month trip across the western half of the country.
	www.inn-oregon.com /NortheastOregon/UnionC/OregonTrail/oregontrail.html (118 words)

	Soil water trends after clearcutting in the Blue Mountains of Oregon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This publication was written or produced by the Pacific Northwest Research Station and is in the public domain.
		Description: A 20-percent reduction in evapotranspiration as measured by a 20-cm increase in soil water content is expected to result in an insignificant increase in streamflow by clearcut lodging in the study area.
		Klock, G.O.; Lopushinsky, W. Soil water trends after clearcutting in the Blue Mountains of Oregon Res.
	www.treesearch.fs.fed.us /pubs/7627 (209 words)

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