1745 NW Marshall Street
Portland, Oregon 97209
U.S.A.
Company Perspectives:
To become the premium brand of natural Tea Lattes that satisfy the daily lifestyle needs of active, professional people--conveniently packed, easily prepared, and crafted with quality, all natural ingredients, for consumption at home, at work or on the go, by a company that is environmentally and socially conscious.
History of Oregon Chai, Inc.
Oregon Chai, Inc. offers a line of aseptically packaged chai concentrates and latte mixes in foodservice and consumer sizes and ready-to-drink soy-based chai lattes. The company's products, which have captured a greater than 60 percent share of the chai market, are distributed throughout the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Guam through foodservice, natural foods, and grocery channels.
Catching the Wave of the Coffeehouse Movement: 1994-95
In 1989, Heather Howitt, a native of Portland, Oregon, and then a student of anthropology at the University of California in Santa Cruz, was trekking in India's Himalayas. Yearning for a latte, she instead purchased a cup of hot masala chai, a sweet mix of black tea, spices (including pepper), and milk, from a local peddler. Although she did not immediately enjoy the taste, Howitt, a veteran coffee drinker, soon became a "chai" aficionado.
"Chai" is the generic word for tea throughout parts of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. As a mixture of black tea and spices, it first appeared in the United States during the 1960s, brought back by young counterculture travelers. There it thrived in alternative circles, at ashrams and communes. Back at school in California, Howitt went looking for chai and noticed it for sale at coffee houses near campus. But once she had completed her undergraduate degree in 1992 and moved back to Portland, Howitt could no longer purchase the drink she had come to love.
"I decided to figure it out for myself and it was a total pain," Howitt said of learning to brew her own chai in a 1997 issue of the Portland Business Journal. "I looked at tons and tons of Asian chai recipes." After three years of experimenting, from 1990 to 1993, she was satisfied that she had developed a drink concentrate that would please the American palate, a mixture that included vanilla, cinnamon, ginger, and honey--slightly sweeter than the chai she had first tasted--"more dessert-y" than traditional chai. Howitt's concentrate, when mixed with an equal portion of steamed milk or soy milk, was a cross between Indian chai and the increasingly popular designer lattes served in coffee houses, an alternative to espresso drinks. "Ours is more of a vanilla, dessert, honey drink as opposed to a serious cup of spice tea," said Howitt of her drink in a 1995 Baltimore Sun article.
In 1994, at age 25, Howitt put her graduate coursework in urban studies at Portland State University on hold, and with the help of her mother, Tedde McMillan, and a $3,000 loan, she applied for a business license to sell her tea concentrate. The mother-daughter team manufactured their product in the basement of a Portland church, running the business from Howitt's old bedroom in her parents' home. Joined by high school friend Lori Spencer, Howitt went around Portland, selling the liquid chai concentrate, packaged in plastic bottles with hand-designed labels, to local coffee shops and natural food retailers from the trunk of her car. By the end of that year, the new business, called Oregon Chai, had annual sales of $20,000.
Revenues for Oregon Chai's first full year of business in 1995 were about $200,000. In early 1995, nine months after its introduction, Oregon Chai had met with such success that the company branched out with an eight-ounce milk and chai blend in a juice-box type container. Certainly the success was in part due to the company's product being in the right place at the right time. Chai had remained mostly a West Coast phenomenon since its introduction stateside in the 1960s. But during the 1990s, catching the wave of the burgeoning coffeehouse movement, the drink became more widespread. By the mid-1990s, chai had made it to the midwestern states. Seattle-based Starbucks started selling dry chai in teabags and serving it hot and cold in early 1995. Two years later, the Lipton Teahouse in Pasadena, California, was serving a chai product of its own.
"It's catching on. The demand for the product is tremendous," announced Rex Bird, veteran restaurant executive and the company's new president, in the Oregonian in 1996. "As tea and other new-age beverages become more popular, this one has tremendous potential as an alternative to coffee espresso latte." Advertisements for chai claimed that it was low in calories, with little or no caffeine or refined sugars, and no preservatives. Many chai manufacturers further boasted using only natural ingredients and recyclable containers, and hailed medicinal properties of the spices it contained, appealing to both the New Age and environmental crowds.
Putting Together a Business Plan for Success: 1996-97
With Oregon Chai growing by leaps and bounds, Howitt and her team, aware of their own lack of business acumen, sought out the advice of experts. They put together a board of directors that included Joel Lewis, an advertising executive, and Dwight Sinclair, a broker. "These guys," according to J.B. Groh of Crown Point Group Ltd. in a 1997 Inc. article, "are more aggressive from a marketing standpoint than their competitors, many of whom seem content to remain backwoods mom-and-pops selling chai out of the back of a VW bus." Both board members had prior experience in the food industry.
The company's management took the advice of its board. Using contact-management software and schooled in distribution practices by one board member, Oregon Chai saw its distribution list swell from six to 130. Distributors and retailers also had suggestions that the start-up jumped on; when Sunshine Dairy Foods, a Portland distributor, advised that company representatives show up in the wee hours of the morning to pass out samples of chai to truckers, they did so. The chai was popular and, as a result, Oregon Chai's distribution network became a source of free marketing and advertising. Nature's Fresh Northwest, a chain of natural food stores in Portland, came up with the suggestion that the company put its chai in a retail package. With point-of-purchase materials designed by another board member, the company introduced aseptic packaging in 1995 that had the advantage of affording a one-year shelf life.
By 1996, the company's second full year in business, it had turned its first profit. Oregon Chai had become the premier-selling natural foods product nationally in the black tea category, with 120 distributors (including Sysco, Associated Grocers, United Grocers, Sunshine Dairies, Northwest Dairies, Pike Place Creamery, Food Services of America, Mountain People NW, and Peterson & Co.) and 3,500 accounts ranging from Portland-area dairies to clients in Saudi Arabia. The company's sales grew some 450 percent to just more than $1 million, while the entire domestic chai market amounted to only $7.5 million in sales.
As the business grew, the company obtained a Small Business Administration loan and arranged for a financing package of $500,000 from Crown Point Ventures, a Portland investment firm. By 1997, Crown Point had helped Oregon Chai raise $450,000. Pouring every penny back into the business, that year Oregon Chai pulled in more than $2.7 million in revenue. Oregon Chai products were sold in all 50 states through natural food channels, and the company was nearing national distribution in foodservice and mass retail.
Continuing Consumer Demand in the Late 1990s and Beyond
By 1998, the company's sales had increased to $6.8 million, which amounted to a 1,277 percent increase since 1995, and the company had 200 distributors. Howitt credited the company's swift success to several factors. In addition to the press coverage that spurred and accompanied growing interest in chai, the staff put in thousands of hours each year on the floor of food marketing trade shows. "We see that as our grass roots promotion," Howitt explained in the Portland Business Journal in 1998.
Howitt also credited the time Oregon Chai had spent in building its distribution channels and the company's switch to aseptic packaging. "Really our customer base has forced the distribution," said Howitt in the 1998 Portland Business Journal article. "We'll get a college in New York and they only use three of the top distributors; so they'll force it down their distributor's throat. Then the distributor is calling us to get it." In 1998, Oregon Chai ranked number one in both the natural foods chai and tea categories with its original drink mix, and the company introduced two new flavors, Kashmir Green Tea and Herbal Bliss.
In 1999, the company continued to expand its product offerings with the launch of its naturally caffeinated Chai Charger and its first certified organic product, Organic Chai. It also introduced a new product line, ready-to-drink soy tea lattes. After five years in business, Oregon Chai enjoyed $8.5 million in annualized sales and a 64 percent share of the natural foods chai category. To accommodate such growth, the company relocated its headquarters to a trendy neighborhood in the northwest quarter of Portland.
Chai sales nationally amounted to about $30 million in 2000. Of this figure, Oregon Chai controlled about $11 million, a sum that landed it on Inc.'s Top 500 list. "Chai [had become] to the emerging U.S. tea market what cappuccino and latte were to the specialty coffee market when it arose a few years ago," according to Brian Keating, founder and president of Sage Group International LLC, a tea market-research company in Seattle, in an Inc. article in 2001. Industry watchers continued to debate whether the chai phenomenon was a trend or here to stay. In the meantime, Oregon Chai continued to respond to consumer demand with the introduction of a smaller package and the launch of a new line of powdered instant chai tea latte mixes.
Principal Competitors: Bodhi Chai; LiveChai; Mountain Chai; Pacific Chai; Sattwa Chai; Yogi Tea Company.
Related information about Oregon
pop (2000e) 3 421 400; area
251 409 km²/97 073 sq mi. State in NW USA,
divided into 36 counties; the ‘Beaver State’; established as a
fur-trading post on the site of the present town of Astoria, 1811;
occupied by both Britain and the USA, 1818–46, when the
international boundary was settled on the 49th parallel; became a
territory, 1848; joined the Union as the 33rd state, 1859;
population grew after 1842 with settlers following the Oregon
Trail, and again in the late 19th-c after the completion of the
transcontinental railway; capital, Salem; other chief cities,
Albany, Eugene, Portland, Springfield; bounded W by the Pacific
Ocean; rivers include the Columbia, Snake, Willamette; split by the
Cascade Range; fertile Willamette R valley in the W, with the Coast
Ranges beyond; High Desert in the E, a semi-arid plateau used for
ranching and wheat-growing; Blue Mts and Wallowa Mts in the NE;
Fremont Mts and Steens Mts in the S; highest point Mt Hood
(3424 m/11 234 ft); several small lakes in the S,
including Upper Klamath L and L Albert; about half the area
forested; produces over a quarter of the USA's softwood and
plywood; electronics, food processing, paper, fishing; livestock,
wheat, dairy produce, fruit, vegetables; major tourist region;
Crater Lake National Park in the SW.
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Oregon (pronounced The pronunciation , while common, is
incorrect., ?o.??.??n Occurs among speakers where the horse-hoarse merger
has occured, which include the majority of native Oregonians.) is a
state in the Pacific Northwest
region of the United
States. Oregon borders the Pacific Ocean on the west, Washington on the north,
Idaho on the east, and
California, and
Nevada on the south. Two
north-south mountain ranges?the Pacific Coast Range
and the Cascade
Mountain Range?form the two boundaries of the Willamette Valley, one
of the most fertile and agriculturally productive regions in the
world.fact
Oregon has one of the most diverse landscapes of any state in the
US. It is one of the few places in the Northern Hemisphere
where lift-serviced alpine skiing is available year round.fact
Oregon's population in 2000 was 3,421,399, a 20.4% increase over
1990.
History
Oregon's earliest residents were several Native
American tribes, including the Bannock, Chinook, Klamath, and Nez Perce. In 1811, New York
financier John
Jacob Astor established Fort Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia River with the
intention of starting a chain of Pacific Fur Company
trading posts along the river. In the War of 1812, the British gained control of all of the Pacific Fur Company
posts.
By the 1820s and 1830s, the British Hudson's Bay
Company dominated the Pacific Northwest. John McLoughlin, who was
appointed the Company's Chief Factor of the Columbia District,
built Fort
Vancouver in 1825.
In 1841 the master trapper and entrepreneur Ewing Young died with
considerable wealth, with no apparent heir, and no system to
probate his estate. Doctor Ira Babcock of Jason Lee's
Methodist Mission was
elected Supreme Judge. Babcock chaired two meetings in 1842 at
Champoeg?half
way between Lee's mission and Oregon City?to
discuss wolves and other
animals considered troublesome at the time. This government was
first of several acting governments of the Oregon Country (also
referred to as the Republic of Oregon) citeneeded prior to American annexation.
The Oregon Trail
infused the region with new settlers, starting in 1842–43, after
the United States agreed to jointly settle the Oregon Country with the
United Kingdom.
Cooler heads prevailed, and the Oregon boundary
dispute between the United States and British North
America was set at the 49th parallel. The Oregon Territory was
officially organized in 1848.
Settlement increased due to the Donation Land Claim
Act of 1850, in conjunction with the forced relocation of the
native population to Indian
Reservations in Oregon. The state was admitted to the Union on
February 14,
1859.
At the outbreak of the American Civil War, regular troops were withdrawn and
sent east. The First Oregon Cavalry served until June 1865.
In the 1880s, railroads
enabled marketing of the state's lumber and wheat, as well as the more rapid growth of its
cities.
Industrial expansion began in earnest following the construction of
the Bonneville
Dam in 1943 on the Columbia River. (See: State of
Jefferson, State of Klamath, State of Shasta and Cascadia.)
Oregon state ballots often include politically conservative
proposals (e.g. Those trade routes brought the term
eastward.
- In a 2004 article for the Oregon Historical Quarterly,
Professor Thomas Love and Smithsonian
linguist
Ives Goddard argue that Rogers chose the word based on exposure
to either of the Algonquian words wauregan and olighin,
both meaning "good and beautiful".
Less supported theories are based on it having a Spanish
etymology. Others have speculated that the name is related to the
kingdom of Aragon: the
major part of the Spanish soldiers that conquered the West Coast
from California to Vancouver Island in the 18th century were, in fact, from Catalonia, a principate of the
ancient Crown of
Aragon in Spain.
In 1778, Jonathan
Carver used Oregon to label the Great River of the
West in his book Travels Through the Interior Parts of North
America. this use helped establish it in modern use.
Geography
Oregon's geography may be split roughly into six areas:
- the Coast
Range,
- the Willamette Valley,
- the Cascade
Mountains
- the Klamath
Mountains,
- the Columbia River Plateau, and
- the Basin and
Range Region.
.
Oregon is 295 miles (475 km) north to south at longest
distance, and 395 miles (475 km) east to west at longest
distance. As a West Coast state, its lowest point is sea level.
Crater
Lake National Park is the state's only national park, and the
site of Crater Lake,
the deepest lake in the U.S. at 1,943 feet. Similar
federally-owned, protected recreation areas that are entirely in
Oregon include: John
Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Newberry
National Volcanic Monument, and Oregon Caves
National Monument.
Areas that are partly in Oregon and partly in neighboring states
include the California National Historic Trail, Fort
Vancouver National Historic Site, the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail, the Lewis and Clark National and State Historical
Parks, the Nez Perce National Historical Park, and the
Oregon National Historic Trail.
Oregon claims the D
River is the shortest river in the world, though the American state of
Montana makes the same
claim of its Roe
River. Oregon is also home to the smallest park in the world,
Mill Ends Park in
Portland.
Law and government
The Oregon
Country functioned as an independent republic citeneeded with a 3-person executive office and a chief
executive until August
131848, when Oregon was
annexed by the United States, at which
time a territorial government was established. Oregon maintained a
territorial government until February 141859,
when it was granted statehood.
State government
Oregon state government has a separation of
powers similar to the federal government. It has three branches, called
departments by the state's constitution:
- a legislative
department (the bicameral Oregon
Legislative Assembly),
- an executive department which includes an "administrative
department" and Oregon's governor serving as chief executive,
and
- a judicial
department, headed by the Oregon Supreme
Court.
Governors in Oregon serve four-year terms and are term limited
to two consecutive terms, but an unlimited number of total terms.
The Oregon Legislative Assembly consists of a thirty-member
State Senate
and sixty-member House. The state supreme court has
seven elected justices, including the only openly gay state supreme
court justice in the nation, Rives Kistler. The only court that may reverse or modify
a decision of the Oregon Supreme Court is the United States
Supreme Court.
Oregon is one of the few states whose legislature is
biennial. Recent
legislatures have had to be called into special session repeatedly
to address revenue shortfalls resulting from economic downturns,
bringing to a head the need for more frequent legislative
sessions.
The state maintains formal relationships with the nine federally-recognized tribal governments in
Oregon:
- Burns Paiute Tribe
- Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and
Siuslaw Indians
- Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde
- Confederated Tribes of Siletz
- Confederated Tribes of Warm
Springs
- Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian
Reservation
- Coquille
Tribe
- Cow Creek Band
of Umpqua Indians
- Klamath Indian Tribe of Oregon
Oregon adopted many electoral reforms proposed during the
Progressive Era,
due to the efforts of William S. Under his leadership, the state overwhelmingly
approved a ballot measure in 1902 that created the initiative and referendum processes for citizens to directly introduce
or approve proposed laws or amendments to the state constitution.
In following years, the primary election to select party candidates was adopted
in 1904, and in 1908 the Oregon Constitution
was amended to include recall of public officials. More recent
amendments include the nation's only doctor-assisted suicide law,
called the Death with Dignity law (which was challenged in
2005 by the Bush administration in the U.S.
Supreme Court), legalization of medical marijuana, and among
the nation's strongest anti-sprawl and pro-environment
laws.
Of the measures placed on the ballot since 1902, the people
have passed 99 of the 288 initiatives and 25 of the 61 referenda on
the ballot, though not all of them survived challenges in courts
(see Pierce v. During the same period, the legislature has
referred 363 measures to the people, of which 206 have
passed.
Oregon has been a pioneer in the use of vote-by-mail:
- 1981 The Oregon
Legislative Assembly approves experimentation with
vote-by-mail for local elections.
- 1987 Vote-by-mail
becomes permanent, with the majority of Oregon's counties
making use of it.
- 1995 Oregon becomes
the first state to conduct a federal primary election totally by mail.
- 1996 Ron Wyden, Bob Packwood's
replacement, is elected by mail with a 66% turnout.
- 1998 Through a voter
initiative, Oregonians confirm their overwhelming
support for vote-by-mail.
-
2000 Oregon becomes the
first state in the nation to conduct a presidential election entirely by mail.
The state legislature is split between the two parties,
with Republicans dominating the House of
Representatives and Democrats controlling the Senate.
The distribution, sales and consumption of alcoholic
beverages are regulated in the state by the Oregon
Liquor Control Commission. Thus, Oregon is an Alcoholic beverage control state.
Entering the Union at a time when the status of "Negroes" was very much in
question, and wishing to stay out of the looming conflict
between the Union and Confederate States, Oregon banned African Americans
from moving into the state in the vote to adopt its
Constitution (1858). in
2002, additional
language now considered racist was struck from the Oregon
Constitution by the voters of Oregon.
Federal government
Oregon is represented in the United
States legislature by two Senators and
five Representatives. (See also the historical US Congressional Delegations from Oregon.)
In the U.S. Electoral College, Oregon casts seven votes.
See United States court of appeals.
See also : United States presidential election, 2004, in
Oregon
Economy
The Willamette Valley is very fertile and,
coupled with Oregon's famous rain, gives the state a wealth of
agricultural products, including cattle, dairy products, potatoes, peppermint, and apples and other fruits. While the history of the wine production in Oregon can
be traced to before Prohibition, it became a significant industry
beginning in the 1970s and Oregon is home to ten wine
appellations, with three others straddling the
Oregon-Washington border.www.oregonwine.org/ Oregon Wine Center Due to
regional similarities of climate and soil, the grapes planted
in Oregon are often the same varieties found in the French
region of Alsace.
Vast forests have historically made Oregon one of the nation's
major timber
production and logging states, but forest fires (such as the
Tillamook
Burn), over-harvesting, and lawsuits over the proper
management of the extensive federal forest holdings have
reduced the amount of timber produced. According to the
Oregon Forest Resources Institute, timber harvested
from federal lands dropped some 96% from 1989 from 4,333
million to 173 million board feet (10,000,000 to 408,000 m³) in 2001.
Examples include Weyerhaeuser's acquisition of Willamette
Industries in January, 2002, the announcement by Louisiana Pacific
in September, 2003 that they will relocate their corporate
headquarters from Portland to Nashville,
and the experiences of small lumber towns like Gilchrist.
Tektronix was the
largest private employer in Oregon until the late 1980s. Medford is home to
two of the largest mail order companies in the country:
Bear
Creek Corporation which sells gift items under several
brands, and Musician's Friend an international catalog and
Internet retailer of music gear.
Oregon had one of the largest salmon-fishing industries in the world, although
ocean fisheries have reduced the river fisheries in recent
years. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, held in Ashland, is a
tourist draw near its Californian border which complements the
area's scenic beauty and opportunity for outdoor
activities.
Oregon is home to a number of smaller breweries.
Oregon's gross state product is $145.35 billion as of 2005.
Immigration from outside the United States resulted in a net
increase of 72,263 people, and migration within the country
produced a net increase of 77,821 people.
As of 2004, Oregon's population included 309,700 foreign-born
(accounting for 8.7% of the state population) and an estimated
90,000 illegal aliens (2.5% of the state population).
The largest reported ancestry groups in Oregon are: German (20.5%),
English
(13.2%), Irish (11.9%), American (6.2%), and Mexican
(5.5%).
Most Oregon counties are inhabited principally by residents of
European ancestry. Concentrations of Mexican-Americans are
highest in Malheur and Jefferson
counties.
6.5% of Oregon's population were reported as under 5, 24.7%
under 18, and 12.8% were 65 or older. "Non-religious" is an
umbrella term
which is sometimes synonymous with or includes elements of
atheism, agnosticism, skepticism, freethought, humanism, secular humanism,
heresy, logical
positivism, and even apathy.
2000-2003 population trends
Estimates released September 2004 show
double-digit growth in Latino and Asian American populations
since the 2000 Census. Eugene, home of the University of
Oregon, is the third largest city, closely following
Salem.www.pdx.edu/prc/annualorpopulation.html
Oregon
City was the first incorporated city west of the Rockies and later,
the first capital of the Oregon Territory, from 1848 to 1852, when the territorial capital was moved to Salem, Oregon. It
was also the end of the Oregon Trail and the site of the first public
library established west of the Rocky Mountains,
stocked with only 300 volumes. The University of
Oregon in Eugene is Oregon's flagship liberal arts
institution, while Oregon State University in Corvallis is the
flagship agricultural school. The State also has three regional
universities: Western Oregon University in Monmouth,
Southern Oregon University in Ashland, and Eastern Oregon
University in La Grande. Concordia University, Lewis &
Clark College, Marylhurst University, Reed College, Warner Pacific
College, and the National College of Natural Medicine are also in
Portland. Pacific University is in the suburb of Forest
Grove.
There are also private colleges further south in the Willamette
Valley. McMinnville has Linfield College, while nearby Newberg is home
to George
Fox University. Salem is home to two private schools,
Willamette
University and Corban College. In addition to the University of
Oregon, Eugene is home to the campuses of Northwest
Christian College and Eugene Bible
College. Colleges belonging to the state are:
- Blue Mountain Community College in
Pendleton
- Central Oregon Community College in
Bend
- Chemeketa Community College in Salem
- Clackamas Community College in Oregon
City
- Clatsop Community College in Astoria
- Columbia Gorge Community College in The
Dalles
- Klamath Community College in Klamath
Falls
- Lane Community College in Eugene
- Linn-Benton Community College in Albany, with a
campus in Corvallis
- Mount Hood Community College in Gresham
- Oregon Coast Community College in
Newport
- Portland Community College in Portland
- Rogue Community College in Grants Pass
- Southwestern Oregon Community College in
Coos Bay
- Tillamook Bay Community College in Bay
City
- Treasure Valley Community College in
Ontario
- Umpqua Community College in Roseburg
Professional sports teams
The only major professional
sports team in Oregon is the Portland Trail
Blazers of the National
Basketball Association. The Rose Garden's other tenants
include the Portland Winter Hawks, a longstanding and popular
Western
Hockey League team, and the Portland
Lumberjax, an expansion National
Lacrosse League team.
In addition to the Winter Hawks and Lumberjax, Portland has two
more minor-league sports teams who play at PGE Park. The Portland Timbers of
the USL First
Division are a very popular soccer team, and the Portland Beavers of
the Pacific
Coast League are the Triple-A club of the San Diego Padres.
The Eugene
Emeralds and the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes both play in the
Single-A Northwest League. Oregon also has four teams in the
fledgling International Basketball League: the Portland Chinooks,
Central
Oregon Hotshots, Salem Stampede, and the Eugene
Chargers.
Even with all of these professional options available, the
state's two major college teams, the Oregon Ducks and
Oregon
State Beavers remain the most popular sports entities in
the state. They are:
- State
flower: Oregon-grape (since 1899)
- State song: "Oregon, My Oregon" (written in 1920 and
adopted in 1927)
- State bird: Western Meadowlark (chosen by the state's
children in 1927)
- State tree:
Douglas-fir
(since 1939)
- State fish: Chinook salmon (since 1961)
- State rock: Thunderegg (like a geode but formed in a rhyolitic lava flow; since
1965)
- State animal: American Beaver (since 1969)
- State dance: Square dance (Adopted in 1977)
- State insect: Oregon Swallowtail
butterfly (Papilio oregonius; since
1979)
- State
fossil: Metasequoia (since 2005)
- State gemstone: Oregon sunstone, a
type of feldspar
(since 1987)
- State nut: Hazelnut (since 1989)
- State seashell: Oregon hairy triton (Fusitriton
oregonensis, a gastropod in the cymatiidae family; since 1991)
- State mushroom: Pacific Golden Chanterelle (since
1999)
- State
beverage: Milk
(since 1997)
- State fruit: Pear (since 2005)
- State motto: Alis Volat
Propriis, Latin for ?She Flies With Her Own Wings? in
1957.www.leg.state.or.us/history/motto.htm)
- State hostess: Miss Oregon (since 1969)
- State team: Portland Trail Blazers of 1990?1991 (since
1991)
See also
- Wikitravel Entry: Oregon
- Music of
Oregon
- Scouting in Oregon
-
The Begum's Millions, a Jules Verne utopian
fantasy set in Oregon
Notes and references
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