HASSO HERING

A perspective from Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley

Rushing to get rock out of Coffin Butte

Written February 28th, 2024 by Hasso Hering

If you live near the south end of Independence Highway in Benton County, or have driven there lately, you have noticed a sharp increase in truck traffic in the past few months.


Ancient rock, needed today

Written January 3rd, 2013 by

Somewhere around 30 million years ago, during the tertiary period in the geology of Earth, a volcano rose in what today is the middle of Oregon’s Linn County. Time marches on, and for the last half century the Harrington family, which owns more than 200 acres of forest and ranch land in that very spot, […]


 
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