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The Painted Hills is a geologic site in Wheeler County, Oregon that is one of the three units of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument along with Sheep Rock and Clarno. It totals 3,132 acres (12.67 km 2 ) and is located 9 miles (14 km) northwest of Mitchell, Oregon .
George H. Taylor (born 1947) was the former director of the Oregon Climate Service at Oregon State University in Corvallis, a position he held from 1989 until his retirement on 1 May 2008. Education and career
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Merriam, a University of California paleontologist who had led expeditions to the region in 1899 and 1900, encouraged the State of Oregon to protect the area. [19] [24] [n 3] In the early 1930s the state began to buy land for state parks at Picture Gorge, the Painted Hills, and Clarno that later became part of the national monument. [20]
The National Weather Service has issued an ice storm warning from 10 a.m. Tuesday until 4 a.m. Wednesday for the Willamette Valley. ... Oregon State University: The Corvallis campus will be closed ...
Oregon State University: The university's Corvallis campus is closed Saturday. The closure includes all on-campus facilities such as Memorial Union, Student Experience Center, Dixon and on-campus ...
This story was updated at 1:50 p.m. Thursday. After a period of extreme fire growth and new ignitions, Oregon’s wildfire forecast should moderate somewhat over the coming week, especially on the ...
Snowfall in Oregon is greatest in the Cascade Range. Based on data from ski resorts and a few official weather stations, average annual snowfall in the Cascades can range from 300 to 550 inches (760 to 1,400 cm). [3] The state's largest annual snowfall on record, 903 inches (2,290 cm), occurred at Crater Lake in the Cascades in 1950. [6]