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Oregon ranks among the top ten states with the most wind power installed. Climbing from 1 percent in the early 2000s (decade), wind power accounted for 12.4 percent of total electricity generated in Oregon during 2013. In 2009, 691 MW of wind-powered capacity was added in Oregon, the fourth biggest increase in the U.S. that year.
Eastern Oregon Regional Airport ( IATA: PDT, ICAO: KPDT, FAA LID: PDT) (Eastern Oregon Regional Airport at Pendleton) is a public airport three miles northwest of Pendleton, in Umatilla County, Oregon, United States. [1] Commercial service is provided by Boutique Air to Portland, subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.
The Native American peoples of Oregon are the set of Indigenous peoples who have inhabited or who still inhabit the area delineated in today's state of Oregon in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. While the state of Oregon currently maintains relations with nine federally recognized tribal groups, the state was previously home ...
La Grande, Oregon. / 45.32417°N 118.08667°W / 45.32417; -118.08667. La Grande ( / ləˈɡrænd /) is a city in Union County, Oregon, United States. La Grande is Union County's largest city, with a population of 13,082 at the time of the 2010 U.S. Census. The La Grande metro population is 25,076. It is the 16th largest metropolitan ...
Greater Idaho movement. As of February 2024, twelve counties in Oregon (shown in red) had approved ballot measures in favor of Greater Idaho. The Greater Idaho movement is a conservative effort in the US for counties east of the Oregon Cascades, and eventually portions of Northern California, [1] to secede from the state of Oregon and join Idaho.
Tri-Cities, Washington. The Tri-Cities are three closely linked cities ( Kennewick, Pasco, and Richland) [2] [3] at the confluence of the Yakima, Snake, and Columbia Rivers in the Columbia Basin of Eastern Washington. The cities border one another, making the Tri-Cities seem like one uninterrupted mid-sized city.
Eastern Oregon University ( EOU) (officially designated as Oregon’s Rural University) [5] is a public university in La Grande, Oregon. It was formerly part of the Oregon University System, since dissolved. EOU was founded in 1929 as a teacher’s college and today serves as a center for education, culture, and scholarship in rural areas of ...
The 2014 Bundy standoff was an armed confrontation between supporters of cattle rancher Cliven Bundy and law enforcement following a 21-year legal dispute in which the United States Bureau of Land Management (BLM) obtained court orders directing Bundy to pay over $1 million in withheld grazing fees for Bundy's use of federally owned land ...