Posted on: June 13th, 2013 in News & Press |
A Travel Information Council telephonic meeting will be held on Thursday, June 20, 2013, at 9:00 a.m. The proposed 2013 – 2015 OTE budget will be reviewed and voted upon. The meeting is open to the public and takes place at the Salem offices of Oregon Travel Experience, first floor conference room, 1500 Liberty St SE, Suite 150.
Prior to the meeting, the public may submit comments and review the document. …
Posted on: May 7th, 2013 in News & Press, Roadways and Waysides |
When OTE assumed management of the Tillamook rest area one year ago, its onsite rest area team embarked on a vigorous campaign to revitalize the surrounding landscape. The team’s goal was to improve visibility and safety for motorists, and at the same time, highlight the rugged beauty of Oregon’s North Coast.
In 2012, OTE held a grand rest area “re-opening” event and invited the Tillamook community to celebrate with us. However, …
Posted on: January 7th, 2013 in News & Press |
A regular quarterly meeting of OTE’s governing body, the Oregon Travel Information Council will be held this coming Wednesday, January 9, 2013 at OTE’s Salem headquarters. The meeting is open to the public and begins at 9:00 a.m. The meeting will take place in OTE’s first floor conference room at 1500 Liberty St. SE, Suite 150, Salem, OR.
Agenda items are as follows:
Approval of December meeting minutes
Financial overview
Agency strategic goals
Proposed amendments …
Posted on: December 17th, 2012 in News & Press |
Maynard Drawson, July 3, 1925 – December 13, 2012
OTE, the Oregon Heritage Tree Program and its committee members were sorrowed to hear of our friend Maynard Drawson’s passage from this world to the next.
Maynard was instrumental in helping to save some of Oregon’s most important trees. The Oregon Heritage Tree Program would not exist if not for his life’s work preserving trees. All of us involved with heritage trees are …
Posted on: December 6th, 2012 in Historical Marker Details |
Abigail Scott Duniway
(1834-1915)
In 1860, Abigail Jane Scott Duniway and six other women shocked the town of Lafayette by attending a campaign speech by Col. Edward D. Baker, a U.S. Senate candidate. At that time, most people considered it inappropriate for women to take part in any aspect of political life. Age twenty-six at the time, Duniway’s leadership in the act was the first of countless actions for Oregon’s pioneer of woman suffrage.
Startting …
Posted on: November 29th, 2012 in News & Press |
The Oregon Travel Information Council will hold a special telephonic meeting in OTE’s Salem office on Friday December 7, 2012 from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. The Council will approve minutes from a special November meeting and discuss (or possibly approve) janitorial and rest area contracts for OTE’s supervised I-84 rest areas. You are welcome to download an agenda for reference.
For more information regarding OTE’s governing Council, …
Posted on: November 27th, 2012 in Heritage Tree Details |
This large Gray Poplar (Populus canescens) located southeast of Benton Hall on the Oregon State University campus in Corvallis, was a popular gathering spot on campus shortly after the university (at the time the school was known as the Oregon Agricultural College) was founded. The tree got its name around 1900. The OSU Class of 1901 christened it as the “Trysting Tree” after college President Thomas Gatch admonished two students …
Posted on: November 27th, 2012 in Heritage Tree Details |
This Jeffrey pine tree is located at the site of the historic Siskiyou Smokejumper Base at the Illinois Valley Airport in Cave Junction. The Siskiyou Smokejumper Base was one of four such bases in the US built in the early 1940’s. The base was established following an incendiary bomb-drop by the Japanese in Brookings, Oregon in 1942. Forest fires required significant manpower and equipment to control, and many thought the …
Posted on: November 27th, 2012 in Heritage Tree Details |
Adam Randolph Shipley crossed the Oregon Trail from Ohio in 1852. In 1861, after becoming a successful entrepreneur in Portland, Adam and his wife Celinda established a farm on this site which eventually totaled about 1,000 acres. The Shipleys donated land for the first school and grange in the Hazelia area, making their farm a center for the community. Shipley served as the State Grange Master, was one of the …
Posted on: November 27th, 2012 in Heritage Tree Details |
Sugar Pine Trees
Sugar Pine Canopy
Largest Sugar Pine in Tub Springs Wayside
Tub Springs Wayside, 1932
The Tub Springs Sugar Pine is the first Sugar pine to be elected to the Oregon Heritage Tree list. The species was “Discovered” by David Douglas in early 1800’s (Douglas-fir namesake); but known by indigenous people for millennia before him. The Sugar pine’s range is from Baja California in the south to Southern Washington Cascades in the …
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