The biennial Oregon Legislative Assembly consists of a thirty-member Senate and a sixty-member House.
[130] Movies filmed in Oregon include: Animal House, Free Willy, The General, The Goonies, Kindergarten Cop, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and Stand By Me. "Oregon volcano may be warming up for an eruption", "Congressional Record Vol. Oregon is 295 miles (475 km) north to south at longest distance, and 395 miles (636 km) east to west. The earliest evidence of the name Oregon has Spanish origins. The bombing site is now located in the Mitchell Recreation Area. The debate over whether to move to annual sessions is a long-standing battle in Oregon politics, but the voters have resisted the move from citizen legislators to professional lawmakers. McNab, W. Henry; Avers, Peter E (July 1994). Oregon is the … There are also private colleges further south in the Willamette Valley. Oregon state government has a separation of powers similar to the federal government. [56] Sailing from Central America on the Golden Hind in 1579 in search of the Strait of Anian during his circumnavigation of the Earth, the English explorer and privateer Sir Francis Drake briefly anchored at South Cove, Cape Arago, just south of Coos Bay, before sailing for what is now California. [43] However, the state ranks fifth for coolest summer temperatures of any state in the country, after Maine, Idaho, Wyoming, and Alaska. It is primarily an agricultural state. Today, with 4 million people over 98,000 square miles (250,000 km2), Oregon is the ninth largest and 27th most populous U.S. state. The national PCPI in 2013 was $44,765. [131] Additionally, several television shows have been filmed throughout the state including Portlandia, Grimm, Bates Motel, and Leverage. The 42° north parallel delineates the southern boundary with California and Nevada. , cherran Eventually politicians from the south agreed to allow Oregon to enter as a "free" state, in exchange for opening slavery to the southwest United States.[73]. In 2010, biotechnology giant Genentech opened a $400 million facility in Hillsboro to expand its production capabilities. From the 1970s to the 1990s, the Blazers were one of the most successful teams in the NBA in terms of both win-loss record and attendance. [72] Slavery played a major part in Oregon's history and even influenced its path to statehood. Oregon began growing hazelnuts, also known as filberts, in significant quantities around 1876. [104], As of 2015[update], Oregon ranks as the 17th highest in median household income at $60,834.
Tourism is centered on the state's natural features – mountains, forests, waterfalls, rivers, beaches and lakes, including Crater Lake National Park, Multnomah Falls, the Painted Hills, the Deschutes River, and the Oregon Caves. Mazama and is famous not only in the US but also in other parts of the world. The relative humidity of Western Oregon is high except during summer days, which are semi-dry to semi-humid; Eastern Oregon typically sees low humidity year-round.
Crater Lake was not the original name of this famous lake in Oregon. Crater Lake is part of Klamath County in Oregon, which is about 130km from Medford City. A measure to legalize recreational use of marijuana in Oregon was approved on November 4, 2014, making Oregon only the second state at the time to have legalized gay marriage, physician-assisted suicide, and recreational marijuana.