74th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2007 Regular Session
 
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                           A-Engrossed
 
                     House Joint Memorial 6
                 Ordered by the Senate April 16
           Including Senate Amendments dated April 16
 
Sponsored by Representative BRUUN
 
 
                             SUMMARY
 
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure.
 
  Urges Congress to support establishment of Ice Age Floods
National Geologic Trail.
 
                         JOINT MEMORIAL
To the President of the United States and the Senate and the
  House of Representatives of the United States of America, in
  Congress assembled:
  We, your memorialists, the Seventy-fourth Legislative Assembly
of the State of Oregon, in legislative session assembled,
respectfully represent as follows:
  Whereas the National Park Service's Special Resource Study
titled 'Ice Age Floods Study of Alternatives and Environmental
Assessment: Following the Pathways of the Glacial Lake Missoula
Floods' recommends that the Ice Age Floods National Geologic
Trail be established by the Congress of the United States of
America to follow the floods' pathways; and
  Whereas the floods are responsible for shaping a fascinating
landscape that spans much of Oregon, from Juniper Canyon in the
northeast to the cities of Astoria and Warrenton on the Pacific
coast; and
  Whereas the Willamette Meteorite, which weighs 31,107 pounds
and is the largest meteorite ever found in the United States, was
found two miles northwest of West Linn, Oregon, in 1902, at an
elevation of 380 feet above sea level and was apparently carried
by an iceberg along with other granite flood borne erratics from
either the Cordilleran ice sheet or the Purcell lobe in British
Columbia to the Willamette Valley in one of the great ice age
floods; and
  Whereas the landscape and its natural history stimulate
interest in the region and benefit local economies by attracting
recreationists, tourists and scientists; and
  Whereas many of the locations for proposed touring routes,
interpretive facilities and other resources related to the ice
age floods are already on public lands and near, or visible from,
public roadways; and
  Whereas the trail, as envisioned, is to be a collaborative
effort of public and private entities coordinated by the National
Park Service; now, therefore,
Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of
  Oregon:
  That we, the members of the Seventy-fourth Legislative
Assembly, respectfully request that the Congress of the United
States support the establishment of the Ice Age Floods National
Geologic Trail; and be it further
  Resolved, That a copy of this memorial shall be sent to the
President of the United States, to the Senate Majority Leader, to
the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and to each member
of the Oregon Congressional Delegation.
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