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... that in 1881, George Washington Weidler (pictured), owner of Willamette Steam Mills and Manufacturing Company, became the first person to sell electric lighting in Portland, Oregon?
... that a 70-foot waterfall prevents salmon and other migratory fish from swimming upriver beyond the first 0.4 miles of the South Fork Clackamas River in the U.S. state of Oregon?
... that the Portland Winterhawks were the first US team to compete for Canada's national junior hockey championship at the 1982 Memorial Cup, and the first to win it the following year?
... that the Whitehorse Ranch in southeast Oregon voluntarily removed its cattle from 50,000 acres (200 km²) of its BLM grazing allotment for three years to allow watershed and riparian areas to recover?

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