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Ecoregions of the Columbia Plateau

... that the basalt underlying the Columbia Plateau ecoregion (map pictured) in Washington and Oregon can be up to 2 miles (3 km) thick?
... that Helen J. Frye was the first woman to serve on Oregon's sole federal district court?
... that Albert Tozier rang the bell at a church in Hillsboro, Oregon, on New Year's Eve for 64 straight years?
... that the Oregon Portage Railroad was the first railroad in Oregon, and had the first locomotive in the Pacific Northwest, the Oregon Pony?

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