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TIC is pleased to announce that McGregor “Mac” Lynde will serve as the agency’s next Executive Director, beginning on Monday, November 18, 2024. The council agreed by unanimous vote to offer Lynde the appointment at its public meeting on Wednesday, October 23. Currently serving as Special Advisor to the Director of the Oregon Department of Emergency Management, Lynde brings to the Travel Information Council twenty-two years of experience with the …

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Our heritage programs had another eventful year! Three historical markers were updated and replaced, four heritage tree awards were presented to Oregonians doing great work across our state, and we improved our maps to make visiting Oregon’s heritage trees and historical markers a bit easier.

We look forward to dedicating Oregon’s 85th Heritage Tree this fall. Read all about it in our 2025 newsletter!

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Everything is coming up roses at French Prairie Rest Area.

The Monterey Cypress, Oregon’s 26th Heritage Tree, is not only the largest specimen of its species in Oregon, but was also planted by Curry County’s first representative to the Oregon State House.

Dirty Freehub, a gravel cycling nonprofit that works to educate people around the places they ride, recently created a cycling route through Brookings, Oregon. Their team reached out the Oregon Heritage Tree Committee to learn more about the …

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Our heritage programs had another eventful year! We celebrated our long-time Historical Marker volunteers, inducted two new Heritage Trees, recognized four Heritage Tree heroes, and implemented a maintenance plan at Grove of the States.

We couldn’t do this without our dedicated volunteers. Many thanks to the Oregon Historical Marker Committee, the Oregon Heritage Tree Committee, and the Salemtowne Historical Marker Maintenance Crew. All names are credited on page 4. (Contact …

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On Friday, October 19, 2018, the Oregon Heritage Tree Program dedicated the GeerCrest Orchard as new Oregon Heritage Trees in Salem.
The year 1837 saw the beginnings of mass immigration to the Willamette Valley from the Eastern United States. The Willamette Valley, described to Americans in the East as an “Eden of the West,” had been shaped by millennia of active land management by a diverse native population including the Kalapuyan, …

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News Release from The Travel Information Council 
On Friday, July 13, 2018, the Oregon Heritage Tree Program dedicated the Yang Madrone as a new heritage tree in Corvallis, Oregon.
The large Pacific Madrone tree overlooking the Yang house was planted by Hoya Yang to complement the house his wife, Edith Yang, designed. In 1954, Edith became the first female minority architect licensed in Oregon. She designed many buildings in the area …

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