• most of the land that makes up the Santiam State Forest today was acquired by Oregon authorities because of delinquent taxes or purchases at minimal costs prior to foreclosure during the Great Depression?

Facts on topics related to Santiam State Forest

Salem, Oregon

• Oregon doctor Augustus C. Kinney lived in Astoria, but died in Oakland, California, and was buried in Salem, Oregon?
• John D. Boon's former store and former home in Salem, Oregon, are both on the National Register of Historic Places?
• Salem First United Methodist Church is the tallest building in Salem, Oregon and is also the oldest Methodist church west of the Rocky Mountains?
• the Art Building is the third oldest building at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, but has been on campus longer than all but one other building?
• the Capitol Center has been the tallest commercial building in Salem, Oregon, since its completion in 1926?
• the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem, Oregon, is the third largest museum in the state - and Yahoo! Travel's tenth best thing to do in Salem?
• the Prewitt-Allen Archaeological Museum in Salem, Oregon, has a mummy of a 3,500 year-old falcon?
• the Christian Science Monitor once described radio station KSLM (now KVXX) in Salem, Oregon, as "a barricade holding questionable advertising material from the ears of listeners"?
• the oldest state government building in the US state of Oregon, the 1914 Supreme Court Building in Salem, has a stained glass skylight in the shape of the State seal?
• the tallest commercial building in Salem, Oregon was commissioned by Thomas A. Livesley?

Oregon

• Ada Louise Huxtable called Portland, Oregon's Keller Fountain Park "one of the most important urban spaces since the Renaissance"?
• environmentalists and ranchers worked with the Bureau of Land Management to restore riparian areas in the Trout Creek Mountains (pictured) of southeastern Oregon?
• Eugene, Oregon's The Register-Guard is the second largest newspaper in Oregon?
• jökulhlaups, glacial bursts, from Oregon's White River Glacier on Mount Hood have washed out a highway six times since 1926?
• Lake County, Oregon's Warner Lakes and their associated wetlands (pictured) offer numerous recreational opportunities but have relatively few visitors because of their remote location?
• Oregon Republican state senator Jeannette Hamby made several trips to Nicaragua and supported the socialist Sandinistas?
• Oregon U.S. District Court Judge William G. East ordered Robert F. Kennedy to explain why the U.S. government should not pay fees to a private attorney who was ordered to defend a criminal defendant?
• Oregon Governor Oswald West sent his personal secretary Miss Fern Hobbs to Copperfield, Oregon, to shut down illegal activities and impose martial law in 1914?
• Oregon attorney Parish L. Willis was sued for fraud over his investment in the Hot Lake Sanatorium Company, now listed as a historic place?
• Oregon doctor Augustus C. Kinney lived in Astoria, but died in Oakland, California, and was buried in Salem, Oregon?