Stories of Pacific Powerland — 1967

Water engineer Walter N. Granger, who organized the Yakima Land and Canal Company in 1889 and built the Sunnyside Canal that turned the arid Yakima Valley into irrigated farmland.

T.J. Starker, one of Oregon Agricultural College's first forestry graduates in 1910 and a longtime forestry professor there, whose family tree farms grew into Starker Forests.

The Broughton Lumber flume, a nine-mile wooden water chute between Willard and Hood, Washington, that sluiced rough lumber down to the Columbia and became the last operating log flume in the United States.

Reub Long, the witty Fort Rock rancher, horseman and self-taught naturalist of Oregon's high desert who co-wrote the classic The Oregon Desert (1964) and helped preserve the Fort Rock country that bears his mark.

Glacier National Park in the northern Rockies of Montana -- the crown-of-the-continent country of peaks, glaciers and alpine lakes set aside as a national park in 1910.

Henry Failing, the pioneer Portland merchant who arrived in 1851, twice served as the city's mayor, and as president of Oregon's First National Bank became one of the Pacific Northwest's leading businessmen.

The Willamette Valley grass-seed industry -- born when Linn County farmers sowed commercial ryegrass in the wet valley soils in the 1920s -- that made Oregon the grass-seed capital of the world.