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 * ...that the two dams (one pictured) and reservoir that form the Bull Run Hydroelectric Project were decommissioned in 2007–08, due to the rising costs of meeting environmental laws?
 * ...that the "noble polypore" (mushroom species Bridgeoporus nobilissimus) was the first fungus to be listed as endangered by any private or public agency in the United States?
 * ...that Columbia Aircraft successfully converted the famed Lancair IV to a fixed-gear general aviation aircraft, but was purchased by Cessna in 2007 after stiff competition from the Cirrus SR22?
 * ... that baseball's Salem Senators once tried to use a convicted murderer incarcerated at the Oregon State Penitentiary in a game?

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