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A perspective from Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley

Another look before the river takes them

Written September 26th, 2021 by Hasso Hering

Albany resident Nate Vanek has been busy this summer, adding stick sculptures to a gravel bar in the Willamette River. Let’s take another look at them before the river comes up and wipes them out.


 
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