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Florence
 The Florence area was originally inhabited by the Siuslaw tribe of Native Americans and is located on the Oregon Coast at the mouth of the Siuslaw River about the same latitude as Eugene, Oregon. Florence is approximately midway between the other major central Oregon coastal cities of Newport and Coos Bay.
One tradition states the city was named for state senator A. B. Florence, who represented Lane County from 1858 – 1860; another is that Florence was named for a French vessel that was wrecked at the mouth of the Siuslaw River on February 17, 1875. Whichever is tru Florence is surrounded by some of the world’s largest dunes, 15 freshwater lakes, the Siuslaw River, one of America’s most dramatic coastlines and the most photographed bridge in Oregon - The Siuslaw Bridge.
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Why I Love the Oregon Coast - by Brianne Limani
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Statesman Journal Article
Hike: Sutton Creek, north of Florence
 A young man who had been blind since birth approached me at the Oregon Authors Table at the Oregon State Fair in Salem a few years ago.
He said he wanted to buy a copy of my hiking guide for the Oregon Coast.
I responded that the book would be hard for him read because the text is not in Braille. The photos and maps would be useless.
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 ...the rare Oregon silverspot butterfly brought together federal, state and regional agencies and conservation organizations in a decadeslong campaign to preserve Big Creek. The groups waited and pressed and waited some more until this year, when The Nature Conservancy bought the 193-acre parcel for $4.07 million.
...Pickering, the coast ecologist for The Nature Conservancy, stood in the Big Creek meadow on a frigid, cobalt-blue morning earlier this week. The summer's Oregon silverspots were long dead; their progeny were caterpillars, tucked in the meadow duff to overwinter. They will emerge from late July to September, and lay their eggs during a brief, three-week life span.
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Astrid Domingo Molyneux, a visitor from Bristol, UK, stops by the Siuslaw News office Oct. 1. Molyneux is traveling around the world by bicycle.
In the midst of a bicycle trip around the world, Astrid Domingo Molyneux of England made a brief stop in Florence Oct. 1 before continuing her ride south along Highway 101.
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