Oregon: 150 Years in 2009. (2 / 8)
A report conducted in July 2008 (Text and photo: Bernard Jacqmin)
history to experience a progression in the glare, we can begin a journey to Oregon via its most austere, coming from Nevada, for example, by the Route 95 which tar can not melt under the dodger 
July and dragging the weight of Peterbilt improbable cargo. He who comes to pass before us, specifically, carries a collection of bungalows fully assembled it will just have to live once laid on the ground! This road is hypnotic and surreal. It sometimes crosses a hamlet inform, sometimes the remains of a fox or a snake, sometimes a row of mailboxes without any housing on the horizon, at best, a motel-station lost in the middle of
empty mineral. The latter, in this case, is held by a descendant of Chinook, Nez Perce or maybe Klamath. On the front door, two posters already Announce discolored, one, the next powwow organized by the local native community and the other, the great annual rodeo on the side of Fort Mc Dermitt. In the court extending the facility, a guy, probably the boyfriend of the owner, tinker without conviction in the belly of a Chevrolet boned. And as if on purpose, it is at this moment that the radio leak agreements sticky ZZ Top. The mirage is not too far! If conditionner holds up, that we keep on track towards the north than
places with names as evocative or as Crane Lake Woe, it is rewarded. By stage, the green takes over, gently undulating terrain, the route is also becoming more sinuous even more mysterious. As this valley of the John Day River. From this, we say that we can see the evolution of our planet as an open book. Millions of years of volcanic spasms and convulsions were trapped in terrestrial strata 
overlying sedimentary what to call an unbroken sequence starting there 54 million years. "The longest and most comprehensive in the world" supports paleobotanist U.S. RW Chaney. In fact, it is neither more nor less than a "Pompeii" Cenozoic where one can reconstruct the daily life of the dinosaur or camel, pig or the giant turtle. The center's collection of studies and local research houses 22,000 fossil specimens from the seed of grass to the backbone of patriofelis, (a large cat inhabiting the region there are 45 million years). Only one tenth of this fabulous harvest has been identified to date.
(Next episode 12/28/2009)
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