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Archive Home > 2009 > January > 01 > Nursery business is wilting amid storms, economic woes

Nursery business is wilting amid storms, economic woes

Willamette Valley is latest to take hit in statewide downturn

By Joseph B. Frazier / The Bulletin
January 1, 2009

PORTLAND — When winter storms collapsed the metal frames and plastic sheathing that protected nursery stock in the Willamette Valley, the wreckage fell on a billion-dollar Oregon business already feeling the pinch of the downturn in construction and the recession.

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