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Oregon - LoveToKnow 1911 (10245 words) |
 | The Calapooya Mountains, forming the water-parting between the Willamette and the Umpqua rivers, are a lateral spur of the Cascades, and extend westward as far as the Coast Range. |
 | In the mountain forests of south-western Oregon bears, deer, elk, pumas, wolves and foxes are plentiful. |
 | In this region the mountains have an upper, or cold, timber line, the height of which depends upon the severity of the climate, and a lower, or dry, timber line, which is determined by the amount of rainfall. |
| Calapooya Mountains at AllExperts (330 words) |
 | The Calapooya Mountains are a short mountain range in southwestern Oregon in the United States. |
 | The mountains have been an important timber source in the 20th century. |
 | During the 1840s the mountains became an inconvenient barrier for white settlers seeking to move into southern Oregon or to move southward to the California gold fields. |