- ... that the Oregon Imnaha Guard Station (pictured) is one of the few U.S. Forest Service guard stations that have been occupied almost every summer since 1939?
- ... that plants in some parts of the Klamath Mountains ecoregion in Southern Oregon and Northern California have evolved to grow in potentially toxic and nutrient-poor serpentine soils?
- ... that although Portland, Oregon's 140-mile (225 km) long greenway system, the 40-Mile Loop, is far from complete, it has been described as "one of the most creative and resourceful greenway projects" in the U.S.?
- ... that David Shirk, owner of the historic David L. Shirk Ranch in southeastern Oregon, killed an employee of cattle baron Peter French over a land claim?