Profile: The State of Oregon
Not all our IB World Conference attendees will have familiarity with Oregon, the Willamette Valley, Corvallis or Oregon State University. This and future profiles will provide some context for visitors to conference about where the conference is being held and the surrounding locations.
Oregon Flag-Front side
The Beaver adorns the reverse side of the State Flag.
From Wikipedia:
Oregon enjoys a diverse landscape including a scenic and windswept Pacific coastline, the volcanoes of a rugged and glaciated Cascade Mountain Range, dense evergreen forests, and high desert across much of the eastern portion of the state. The towering Douglas firs and redwoods along the rainy Western Oregon coast provide a dramatic contrast with the lower density and fire prone pine tree and juniper forests covering portions of the Eastern half of the state. The eastern portion of the state also includes semi-arid scrublands, prairies, deserts, and meadows. These drier areas stretch east from Central Oregon. Mount Hood is the highest point in the state at 11,249 feet (3,429 m). Crater Lake National Park is the only national park in Oregon.
Crater Lake National Park
Portland, Oregon with Mt. Hood in the background
From Wikipedia:
Portland is a city located in the Northwestern United States, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the state of Oregon. As of July 2009, it has an estimated population of 582,130 making it the 29th most populous in the United States. It has been referred to as the most environmentally friendly or “green” city in the United States and the second most in the world. Portland is Oregon’s most populous city, and the third most populous city in the Pacific Northwest, after Seattle, Washington, and Vancouver, British Columbia. Approximately two million people live in the Portland metropolitan area (MSA), the 23rd most populous in the United States as of July 2006.
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