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Archive Home > 2006 > March > 15 > This desert place

This desert place

Much of Central Oregon is desert landscape, but that's not to say it is without beauty.

By Jim Witty / The Bulletin
March 15, 2006

When people from other places think of Oregon, they go straight to dripping fir forests and plunging mountain streams. But more than half of the state is desert.

That's one of those nifty and nebulous generalizations I pull out from time to time, usually when I'm raving about how great Central....

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