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  Willamette River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The river was an important transportation route throughout much of the early history of the state, furnishing a means of conveying the vast timber and agricultural resources of the state to the outside world.
From Eugene, the combined river flows NNW across the plain of the southern Willamette Valley to Corvallis, then follows a zigzag course past Albany and around the isolated hills in the central valley, passing west of downtown Salem.
The Portland Harbor section of the Willamette River between downtown Portland and its terminus at the Columbia River is heavily polluted from years of industrial development of the river and its banks.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Willamette_River   (778 words)

  
 Serebella Contents Long term memory---Long Tom River   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A submarine river or current is a river which flows under the surface of an ocean.
Long in horizontal dimension is usually said wide.
Long in the positive vertical dimension is usually said tall.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/contains-266470-266473-Long_term_memory-Long_Tom_River.html   (623 words)

  
 Salmon Wild and Scenic River, Idaho
The segment of the main stem from the mouth of the North Fork of the Salmon River downstream to Long Tom Bar.
It originates in the Sawtooth and Lemhi Valleys of central and eastern Idaho, and snows from the Sawtooth and Salmon River Mountains in the south, and the Clearwater and Bitterroot Mountains in the north, feed this wild river.
From Corn Creek to Long Tom Bar, the majority of the rocks exposed in the canyon walls are part of the Idaho Batholith.
www.nps.gov /rivers/wsr-salmon-main.html   (813 words)

  
 California Gold, Mining Techniques   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In the same year, technical improvements such as the cradle, the rocker, the long tom, and river damming, basically all known since the Middle Ages, were introduced by the more experienced Mexicans.
Similar to the long tom, the sluice needed a slope so that the dirt could settle in a basin at the end.
The water companies´ transition from co-operative to private capitalistic forms of labor organization was part of the power shift from the individual small operator to companies and corporations with large labor forces, leading to conflicting interests between the capital owners and the miners, thus contributing to a formation of class consciousness and antagonisms.
www.duke.edu /~agf2/history391/mining.html   (984 words)

  
 Rivers of Middle-earth
At the confluence of the rivers was the Elf haven of Edhellond.
The River Running was a major commerce route until the Smaug seized the Lonely Mountain from the Dwarves in 2770.
Long ago, Tom had found Goldberry, the River-daughter, in a pool down the Withywindle, and at the end of every summer he would go along the river to gather water-lilies for her.
www.tuckborough.net /rivers.html   (7898 words)

  
 indian creek   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Long Tom River, according to an ongoing Tetra Tech study of Willamette River water quality, is one of the most polluted in the Willamette Basin.
OCF staff have observed that during rain events, the flow entering the Long Tom from Indian Creek is muddier than the Long Tom itself, due to land-clearing, livestock pasturing and other disruptive activities in the Indian Creek drainage area north of Suttle Road, before the creek enters OCF property.
The project enhances the connection between the Long Tom River, which supports an existing population of beaver, and a complex of beaver ponds and dams at the west end of the Country Fair property.
www.oregoncountryfair.org /WhatElse/oweb.html   (2156 words)

  
 [No title]
Tom was off to help a neighbor "snake" logs down the mountain and into Kingdom Come, where they would be "rafted" and floated on down the river to the capital--if a summer tide should come--to be turned into fine houses for the people of the Bluegrass.
Tom had brought some friends from over the mountain, and had told the neighbors as he came along that there was going to be a party at his house that night.
It did not last long, but the river was muddy enough and high enough for the Turner brothers to float the raft slowly out from the mouth of Kingdom Come and down in front of the house, where it was anchored to a huge sycamore in plain sight.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext00/lsokc11.txt   (19123 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Tom poked about amongst the passages, and pretty soon ducked under a wall where you wouldn't a noticed that there was a hole.
Tom Sawyer called the hogs "ingots," and he called the turnips and stuff "julery," and we would go to the cave and powwow over what we had done, and how many people we had killed and marked.
She told about me and Tom Sawyer finding the six thousand dollars (only she got it ten) and all about pap and what a hard lot he was, and what a hard lot I was, and at last she got down to where I was murdered.
www.sbceo.k12.ca.us /~mceachen/HuckleberryFinnTxt.txt   (23657 words)

  
 Mining for Gold
The Long Tom was an 8 to 20 foot rocker.
The gold can be found in river beds or creeks in sediment worn away by water.
Rivers would wash the gold from rocks and other deposits and carry it downstream.
www.kidport.com /RefLib/UsaHistory/CalGoldRush/MiningGold.htm   (280 words)

  
 Long Tom Watershed Council
The Long Tom Watershed Council is a volunteer group of citizens from diverse perspectives coming together to learn about the watershed and do what they can to improve the water quality and habitat conditions.
Oregon's Long Tom River and its tributaries flow from the crest of the Coast Range Mountains through Fern Ridge Reservoir, then northward to join the Willamette River just beyond the town of Monroe.
The Long Tom River and the surrounding watershed provide a multitude of benefits including: productive forest and farm lands, recreational opportunities, and habitat for cutthroat trout, blue heron, western pond turtle, and many sensitive plants.
www.longtom.org   (151 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Coast Fork and Long Tom Plan is one of nine plans prepared for the mainstem and tributaries of the Willamette River.
à ÃLong Tom SubbasinÄ Ä Á ÁPortions of Lane and Benton counties are drained by the Long Tom Subbasin.
The last hatchery releases of coho to the Coast Fork and Long Tom subbasins were in 1976 and 1972, respectively.
www.streamnet.org /subbasin/Longtom.doc   (4220 words)

  
 McKenzie River Trust
Long Tom River · McKenzie River · Umpqua River · Coast Fork
The Siuslaw River has no true headwaters: both Lake Creek (to the north) and the Siuslaw River (to the south) are the origins of the River.
As you move toward the coast, the landscape changes to the traditional and diverse coastal temperate rain forest Oregon is known for.
www.mckenzieriver.org /watershed_siuslaw.htm   (281 words)

  
 McKenzie River Trust
The Long Tom Watershed is one of the major watersheds in the upper Willamette River Basin.
The headwaters of the Long Tom River originate in the forested Coast Range Mountains and foothills, flow through small farms, ranches, rural and urban areas to Fern Ridge Reservoir, and then through larger farms until it joins the Willamette River.
We are working with the Long Tom Watershed Council, landowners, The Nature Conservancy, and public agencies to identify and protect lands of high ecological character.
www.mckenzieriver.org /watershed_long_tom.htm   (247 words)

  
 Oregon Country Fair
Rolling, dusty meadows bordering the Long Tom River, where ancient oak trees and tall grassed camouflaged a Kalapooia Indian trail along the banks of the sparsely-wooded are would be the new home for the Fair, where it remains today.
The Fair has begun exploring land-use planning strategies for the Upper Long Tom Watershed in hopes of establishing a wetlands watershed and re-establishing a wetlands corridor that runs through the Fair property.
There are many volunteers who work all year long to make sure that the Fair is a success - attending meetings, tending to the site, designing banners and posters, and interfacing with the larger community.
www.oregoncountryfair.org /WhoWeAre/history.html   (1157 words)

  
 Guide to Angling in Lane County, Oregon
The lake is the body of water immediately above Leaburg Dam on the McKenzie River approximately 17 miles east of Springfield.
The river supports native populations of rainbow trout, cutthroat trout and bull trout.
The river is heavily stocked with rainbow trout from Blue River to Leaburg Lake, in Leaburg Lake and below Leaburg Dam.
www.dfw.state.or.us /springfield/anglingguide.html   (1663 words)

  
 THE STEEL HAMMER
The rivers are the lifeblood of the city, bringing in the barges of raw materials for the steel mills, and carrying out the numerous manufactured products for which the city is well known.
Long Tom had put down the big tri-motor plane on the Ohio River, about three miles from downtown Pittsburgh, where there was a long stretch of water without a bridge to block and amphibian landing.
Long Tom had been left behind in Pittsburgh to continue his analysis of the recording of the Steel Hammer’s attack.
hometown.aol.com /docsavage1956/myhomepage/books.html   (20148 words)

  
 Ob
With the Irtysh River, its chief tributary, it is c.3,460 mi (5,600 km) long and is the world's fourth longest river.
Formed by the junction of the Biya and Katun rivers (both of which rise in the Altai range) SW of Biysk, the upper Ob flows NW, then NE past Barnaul and Novosibirsk through the W Siberian lowlands to be joined by the Tom River.
Tom - Tom, river, c.525 mi (840 km) long, rising in the Alatau range, S Siberian Russia.
www.factmonster.com /cgi-bin/id/A0836264   (356 words)

  
 Bend of the River (1952)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Trivia: During the sequence when the riverboat 'River Queen' is on the Columbia River there is a shot of the waterfall rapids.
By the time the movie was made, the river had been re-engineered and the rapids, long used by local Indians for fishing, were submerged.
Filmed against a breathtaking Technicolor panorama, with nice music that highlights the action, "Bend of the River" is a good standard Western with pace and period feeling, rolling along to its predictable happy ending, discarding any unwanted characters...
www.imdb.com /title/tt0044413   (632 words)

  
 Atlas of Lane County: Watersheds, Willamette Basin
The Willamette River Basin is composed of 11sub-basins, four of which have a portion located within Lane County boundaries.
The McKenzie River is the water source for Eugene and Springfield.
The source of the Middle Fork Willamette River is Waldo Lake which is one of the purest lakes in the world.
geography.uoregon.edu /infographics/lcweb/willamette.htm   (368 words)

  
 Advisors
Brand is the author of many pioneering books including The Clock Of The Long Now in 1999, How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built in 1994, The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT in 1987, and Two Cybernetic Frontiers on Gregory Bateson and cutting-edge computer science in 1974.
Early in his career, Erwin solved the intractable taxonomy of the California Bombardier Beetles which led to long term study of Neotropical beetles and a lifetime study on the biodiversity of Neotropical forests.
A second area of research involves an analysis of long term food storage strategies by animals that cache food during periods when it is unavailable of costly to secure.
www.all-species.org /advisors.html   (9005 words)

  
 USGS CIRC 1161 subpage: FISH COMMUNITIES, HABITAT, AND WATER CHEMISTRY
The highly impaired sites--Long Tom River, Bear Creek (tributary to the Long Tom River), and Little Muddy Creek (located north of Eugene and east of the Willamette River)--were characterized by high abundances of introduced species and tolerant reticulate sculpin, and high levels of external anomalies.
The Long Tom and Little Muddy sites have been channelized; discharge of the Long Tom River is regulated by an upstream dam; and Bear Creek had poor quality instream habitat.
Fish were collected within a minimum reach length of 500 feet using backpack and boat electrofishing procedures, and all fish were identified to species (Meador and others, 1993a).
pubs.usgs.gov /circ/1998/circ1161/nawqa91.4.html   (1182 words)

  
 Private River Permit Infomations: Adventure Sports Online
This is not a complete list of western rivers, but are rivers that require private trip permits.
The American River Management Society has more information about the appropriate use of rivers and management.
River recreation guide and map is available on request.
www.adventuresportsonline.com /rpermit.htm   (489 words)

  
 Oregon Parks and Recreation: State Parks About Us
Elijah Bristow State Park is located on the Willamette River, and is easily to reach via State Highway 58 southeast of the Eugene.
It is one of the finest steelhead fishing spots on the North Santiam River.
Helmick lies along the floodplain of the Luckiamute River and is forested in Douglas fir, grand fir, maple, ash, Port Orford cedar......
www.oregonstateparks.org /searchpark.php?region=willamette_valley   (697 words)

  
 DEQ News Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Veneta's treatment plant discharges treated wastewater to the Long Tom River during winter months.
In the summer when river flow is low, Veneta must apply treated wastewater to land near the sewage treatment plant.
This will better protect aquatic life in the Long Tom River and provide a higher level of public health protection.
www.deq.state.or.us /news/prDisplay.asp?docID=679   (334 words)

  
 Aromanian Vlachs: The Vanishing Tribes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The only other one we saw was tending his sheep up by the source of the river Crni Drim -the "Black Devil"- on the Albanian border, in the back of beyond.
Mark Dragoumis recently pointed out -not without a strong hint of bitter irony- that ‘Greeks can never do evil…they are always heroic and good’ the villain’s vacant place is fulfilled by those whose Greekness (term which is an adjective in Greece meaning ‘good and brave’) is suspicious at a closer examination.
It is no use of pretending that there is not around a long tradition –deeply rooted both among scholars and populist politicians alike- of dishing the dirt in the faces of those who are either voiceless, vulnerable or are perceived as an insignificant entity.
www.vlachophiles.net   (10959 words)

  
 FURNEAUX GROUP - SHIPWRECKS
Flinders Island is the largest of the group, 64 km long by up to 29 km wide, with a beautiful mountain range to the south, the Strzelecki Peaks.
From Grafton on the Clarence River, NSW for Melbourne with ironbark piles, encountered strong north-westerly winds after passing Wilsons Promontory, and took water, and headed for the Furneaux Group for shelter; abandoned when off the Sisters, 27 March 1887.
Schooner, 65 tons.Built at Exeter on the Tamar River, 1849; reg.
oceans1.customer.netspace.net.au /furneaux-wrecks.html   (12990 words)

  
 Pop Science, Left Politics  and Reports on the Creeping Weirdness
Long Worldchanging Interview with Cyborg Democracy Spokespeople Garreau, Naem and Hughes.
As for his second massive death scenario, Futurepundit suggests that the geological die off that happens every 60 million years or so is overdue.
Could be, and this is my speculation, something that distorts the outer rim of the solar system and forces meteors and comets streaming our way,perhaps that long rumored twin star or a rogue fl hole.
www.threerivertechreview.com   (2546 words)

  
 Monroe Studio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Natural systems information such as land cover, surface hydrology, vegetation, wetlands, sensitive habitat areas and cultural information such as existing parks and park sites, and historic events, sites and buildings will all be mapped and analyzed.
For the purposes of this study, the "greater Monroe area" includes an area of approximately nine square miles (see map below) eastward from Monroe to the Willamette River, westward from Monroe to Alpine, southward to the county line and northward to a line including Bellfountain.
How can the Long Tom River corridor be both protected and used for economic and recreational purposes, while simultaneously improving riparian and aquatic habitat?
darkwing.uoregon.edu /~bartj/classes/LA594Monroe.html   (1387 words)

  
 The Myrtle Beach Golf Desk - Myrtle Beach Golf Package Specialist
Long hitters will find plenty of room off of the tee, but approach shots must be accurate because as the name suggests there is plenty of water at The River Club.
River Club is part of "The Masters Collection" for multiple
Long Bay Club, River Club, Waterway Hills, Willbrook Plantation.
www.golfdesk.com /courses/rivc.cfm   (209 words)

  
 Directions to Secret House Vinyards
Just before the Long Tom River, turn south onto Applegate Trail.
Go across the Willamette River, then south 4 miles to Junction City.
Go across the Long Tom River, and turn south onto Applegate Trail.
geography.uoregon.edu /infographics/wineatlas/secretho.html   (377 words)

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