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2. Dune (novel) - Wikipedia

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   The Oregon Dunes, near Florence, Oregon, served as an inspiration for the Dune saga. After his novel The Dragon in the Sea was published in 1957, Herbert traveled to Florence, Oregon, at the north end of the Oregon Dunes. Here, the United States Department of Agriculture was attempting to use poverty grasses to stabilize the sand dunes.

3. How to Read All the 'Dune' Books in Order - AOL

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   In 1957, author Frank Herbert traveled to the Oregon Dunes on a reporting assignment. He wrote on the use of grasses to slow the movement of the dunes, prevent them from spreading, from taking over.

4. Frank Herbert - Wikipedia

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   The Oregon Dunes near Florence, Oregon, served as an inspiration for the Dune saga. Herbert began researching Dune in 1959. [23] He was able to devote himself wholeheartedly to his writing career because his wife returned to work full-time as an advertising writer for department stores, becoming their breadwinner during the 1960s. [24]

5. List of fiction set in Oregon - Wikipedia

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   Eureka, set in Oregon, but filmed in British Columbia [6] Free Agents, set in Portland, but filmed in Los Angeles; Gravity Falls, set in the Detroit Lake area of Oregon; Grimm, set and filmed in Portland; Hello Larry, set in Portland; Leverage, set in Portland beginning with season 5; filmed in Oregon since season 2

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8. Dune - Wikipedia

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   Fixed crescentic dunes that form on the leeward margins of playas and river valleys in arid and semiarid regions in response to the direction (s) of prevailing winds, are known as lunettes, source-bordering dunes, bourrelets and clay dunes. They may be composed of clay, silt, sand, or gypsum, eroded from the basin floor or shore, transported up ...

9. Devil's stovepipe - Wikipedia

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   Hikers moving onto a dune encroaching on a forest in the Oregon Dunes. In time this may lead to devil's stovepipes in the area. In time this may lead to devil's stovepipes in the area. A devil's stovepipe or decomposition chimney is a hole formed when a tree, that has been buried by an encroaching sand dune , decomposes . [ 1 ]