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Nuclear Survival in
Oregon

This is the nuclear target map for Oregon, but remember, fallout can go anywhere or everywhere (and probably will). After you have looked at this map look at the Information for Oregon that follows it.

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Nuclear Weapon Target Map for Oregon (FEMA-196/September 1990)Oregon targets

UPDATE to Target Information!!!

Information for Oregon

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It is recommended that you go through the following 10 steps in studying about the nuclear threat to Oregon.

1. Look at the State Map above to see the target nuclear areas in Oregon.

2. Look at the general expected fallout map to see where Oregon
(according to the prevailing wind pattern)
gets fallout from other states.

3. If the state that you live in is anywhere EAST of any of the following 6 states in the prevailing wind pattern then look at the states in RED on the INDEX of STATES for

  • Montana
  • North Dakota
  • South Dakota
  • Nebraska
  • Missouri
  • Colorado

  • These six states contain what is called DENSE PACK which I explain on each of those states pages. UNDERSTAND that the wind pattern COULD at that time be something other than the "prevailing" wind pattern.

    4. Bookmark the present URL or make a copy of this present address so that you can come back to it after going to

    Blast Mapper.

    This mapper is on someone else's web site so that you will need to save this address in order to return here if your back button doesn't work. However, you want to be sure to go the mapper site and calculate the damage to probable targets (cities) around you.

    5. Memorize the THREE top rules for survival. They are:

  • Number One - Get out of the cities!

  • Number Two - Get out of the cities!

  • Number Three - Get out of the cities!

  • 6. The follow-on rules are:
  • a. Have a shelter
  • b. Work with a group (you are going to need the manpower, brainpower, and skillpower).
  • c. Stock supplies.

    7. My Survival Web Page contains links to lots of other information such as free books to download about nuclear survival, links to plans for building shelters, and even free consultation about building a shelter.

    8. If you are SUPER concerned about nuclear survival you might consider joining the

    Ark Two Community.

    9. If you like, you can look at our Honor List for groups that we know of that have an existing rural location. Most of these, however, have no direct interest or preparation in regards to nuclear survival. At the bottom of this page is a Directory of our contacts in Oregon. Many of the local entries for states were listed because of their Y2K concerns and may not have any nuclear concerns.

    10. And finally, if you wish to be on the mailing list for my irregular newsletter in which I analyze current events in regards to the nuclear threat, you can sign-up here:

    http://lists.pairowoodies.com/mailman/listinfo/arktwo

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    Link to the Directory for Oregon


    The following is the most commonly used prevailing wind predicted fallout pattern, but remember, fallout can go anywhere or everywhere (and probably will).

    Continental US Fallout Pattern for Prevailing Winds (FEMA-196/September 1990)

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    The Directory for Oregon


    Oregon STATE Index

    Oregon Oregon State TEAM Leader
    Oregon Oregon Asst. State TEAM Leader
    Oregon (Cottage Grove) 1200 acres
    Oregon (Dallas - Polk County)
    Oregon (Deadwood) 280 acres
    Oregon (Eugene)
    Oregon (McMinnville) Oregon Y2K Preparedness Organization
    Oregon (Medford) Neighborhood Community Guidance!!!
    Oregon (Northeastern)25 acres of land
    Oregon (Northeast)
    Oregon (Silverton)
    Washington (Snohomish) No land yet.
    Oregon (Wolf Creek) 140 acres
    OREGON (Other)

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    132. Dallas year 2000 committee

    Polk County,
    City of Dallas, Oregon
    Steve Bennett
    503-623-5458

    snowpeak@juno.com

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    165. Eugene Y2K Ready User's Group

    Eugene, Oregon
    Cynthia Beal

    cabeal@efn.org
    Listserv:

    year2000@efn.org

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    133. Rogue Valley Year 2000 (RV-Y2K) Task Force

    The Task Force maintains excellent information on forming Neighborhood committees.

    Neighborhood Community Guidance
    Medford, OR
    RV-Y2K Task Force
    541-608-9265
    countdown@rv-y2k.org

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    010. Silverton Oregon Task Force

    We are a small group of people who will meet for the first time with the help of our city govenment to discuss the problem (briefly), hear from important business and government people in our community. discuss preparedness and agree to meet further in order to develop our plans and ideas.
    Ron Johnson

    rondjohn@gte.net

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    034. Oregon

    Oregon State TEAM Leader
    TEAM stands for Together Everyone Achieves More
    The TEAM Leaders function is to tell you of other individuals in your geographic area, who are preparing and who would like to form a preparedness group or start a survival community.
    Your contact for the Oregon TEAM Leader is:
    Carmine

    CCHOL@aol.com

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    172. Oregon

    Oregon State Asst. TEAM Leaders
    TEAM stands for Together Everyone Achieves More
    The TEAM Leaders function is to tell you of other individuals in your geographic area, who are preparing and who would like to form a preparedness group or start a survival community.
    Your contact for the Oregon Asst. TEAM Leaders is:
    Greg and Brandi Frechette

    brandi@teleport.com

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    192. Oregon Y2K Preparedness Organization

    We are made up of about thirty of us so far.

    My family and I are making the move out in to the Oregon woods.

    I have set up a site for people to exchange the materials that they need for Y2K Preparedness.

    These classifieds are free for people to post want ads and sale ads. The only classified ads I do charge for on the site is for ads with pictures I charge $10 dollars to post photos with those ads and I also charge commercial rates for Companies selling new equipment for profit. So as you can see this is a whole hearted move and not a financial one.

    Nick Van Houte
    Oregon Web Development Inc.
    www.y2kclassifieds.com
    www.visitoregon.com
    www.visitusa.com
    1031 N. Cowls Suite 2
    McMinnville, Oregon 97128
    Phone/(503) 435-1066
    Email owdi@macnet.com

    owdi@macnet.com

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    251. Alpha Farm

    Alpha Farm

    Alpha Farm is an intentional community of people who have chosen to live and work together to share a more harmonious way of living. At our home in rural western Oregon, we live the largely self-reliant style of a close-knit expanded family; we average 15 to 20 people, including singles, couples and families, and have ranged in age from infants to elderly. We also help others who wish to touch, in one way or another, the cooperative and whole-rounded way of living here. Many people write to us, and many also visit. This information is intended to answer some of your questions and introduce you, very briefly, to what Alpha Farm is, what the community does, and why.

    In The Beginning

    In 1971, four people in Philadelphia discovered a strong bond of agreement among them - an agreement that went beyond words. They shared a powerful spiritual "leading" - indeed, a compulsion - to embrace like-minded people in intentional community and to have faith in the spirit they felt. They realized that the social and political activism in which they were engaged needed to be relinquished, and something drastically different and really quite simple needed to take its place. They wrote in a prospectus, "The renewal of the social order, we now see, must begin with ourselves. We seek to change our basic assumptions and patterns of daily living; to accomplish this we must alter our patterns of thought. We must live ourselves into the future we seek."

    They felt with a deep certainty that for them a rural, holistic community needed to happen, and quickly - and events seemed to coalesce to bring it into existence. Within one short year of that initial vision, the land was found, funds were raised, like-minded people gathered, and community life began. As though by divine design, the name for the community was discovered: The old homestead, it turned out, had once served as a tiny post office named Alpha. How fitting! Alpha, the first letter of the Greek alphabet, meaning "the beginning."

    Alpha farm is located about 25 miles from the Pacific Ocean and about 55 miles by road northwest of Eugene, the nearest city. Dense, predominantly conifer forests cover these steep hills of the Coast Range of Oregon, fed by abundant rainfall in the winter and dry, moderate summers. The 280-acre farm is nestled in a green finger valley among these hills. Our living spaces include a large old farmhouse, the five-bedroom "new house" built in 1980, and an assortment of cabins, cottages, yurts and trailers. Dining and general living space has been tight for this large family, but it has always been the community guideline that each individual have a private room.

    At Alpha, the value of commitment runs deep. A goodly number of the people who have lived as "residents" for a year-long introductory period have stayed to become members. Our bylaws define the membership commitment as "for the foreseeable future," and for the average member, this has been five to ten years or more. Many people, too, have come for shorter periods, staying for a summer or perhaps a year, a welcome addition to the diversity of the whole.

    In the course of our development, a number of our members have been called to other pursuits and moved on. Like the cycle of the seasons or the ebb and flow of the tides, Alpha has gone through cycles of higher and lower population, and the community has shifted accordingly. Some of our work, activities and agreements have changed over the years. The feel of daily life varies subtly from one year to the next as new residents and members join us, adding their uniqueness to the community whole. Alpha's successful existence for more than 20 years provides the stable base that underlies these shifts and cycles. As with many living organisms, Alpha's continuing evolution has bred increasing complexity in the community. Over time, though, we find that the French saying applies: The more things change, the more they stay the same. At the core of Alpha is a spirit that remains, serving both as anchor and guide as the community continues to evolve.

    'Tis a Gift To Be Simple

    Compared to that of mainstream America, life at Alpha is simple. We heat principally with wood, and do not have some of the amenities that are frequently taken for granted, such as broadcast television. But we live comfortably nonetheless, and on a fraction of the resources ordinarily required. Hard work is a way of life - even a way of expressing ourselves. The day begins early and ends late, but there is always time to pause and appreciate the people and land around.

    To own land is to be a steward and partner of part of the planet - both a privilege and a responsibility. Over the past two and a half decades, the land here has taken on increasing significance as we learn to recognize and understand its cycles and currents, and in this process, experience a growing sense of place. As we come to know this land and learn to pay attention, we find that the Earth itself will suggest appropriate functions, whether for agriculture, for development or simply to be left wild. Such different sources as the Native Americans, Rudolph Steiner and our friends at Findhorn have influenced our learning of the appropriate harmonic role in relation to the earth. We garden and farm organically, raising many of our own vegetables; over the years we also have produced an abundance of fruit, honey, eggs and dairy products. Our diet is primarily ovo-lacto vegetarian, and dinners together are a lighthearted family ritual.

    Love Made Visible

    It takes a lot to keep things going on a homestead: food production, preservation and preparation, building maintenance, auto care and repair, housekeeping, accounting, shopping. Although people at Alpha are occasionally employed at "outside" jobs or free-lance work, most community work occurs in communally owned enterprises. We deliver mail under contract with the U.S. Postal Service. Over the years we have had a number of Alpha enterprises, such as construction contracting, custom tractor work, and farm-based businesses, including commercial dahlia raising, cut flower and mail-order tuber sales. A major endeavor is Alpha-Bit, our cafe/bookstore/gift shop in Mapleton, a nearby town. Here especially, we seek to provide a community service in a centered, nurturing environment; and at the same time, to foster cooperative values in the world simply by being visible there.

    We also have fostered cooperative values more directly. One community member has established a career and gained international recognition facilitating large meetings and teaching consensus decision making. Our support of this work has included hosting five-day workshops at Alpha on consensus and facilitation, and more recently, two of us have begun to take a more active role as support staff and consultants-in-training. Whether at home or away, we seek to live up approach at Alpha, although we have discovered an essential unity that goes beyond any one of them. We do expect each individual, however, to be open to moving with spiritual values as part of living.

    Expressions of spirit at Alpha have covered a wide range: Quaker meetings, yoga, drum circles, Sufi dancing, shared readings and discussion from different traditions, and celebration of Earth-centered, Jewish and Christian holidays. Over time we find that spirituality has become more implicit than explicit at Alpha. We speak of spirit less than we did in Alpha's early days. Yet it still is clearly present among us - in the holding of hands before dinner, in a song shared, in a moment of silence before meeting, in the way we seek to treat each other. One might say that our group "spiritual practice" is actually to express, moment to moment in our work and our relations with others, qualities of cooperation, respect, nurturance and helpfulness.

    Sharing Our Way Of Life

    It would be easy, one might think, to become self-indulgent at Alpha; to enjoy life and forget the rest of the world. Yet the purpose of Alpha is not to escape the world, but to answer it - most simply by actively taking responsibility for the part of the world that we touch. It involves becoming more whole. And despite being in the country, our connectedness with society as a group is greater than it ever was for us as individuals. Alpha participates in many gatherings, conferences and conversations, small and large, at the farm and elsewhere. An enlarging network of friends and groups is, each in its own way, contributing to what we sense is an evolving consciousness. Many people are seeking to live more fruitfully and with increased integrity, and by their doing so, the patterns for a more integrated and harmonious era are unfolding.

    Each year hundreds of people visit Alpha. Visitors make a significant contribution to our lives, and all are welcome who are interested in this kind of cooperative living. If you wish to visit, please keep certain things in mind:

    Daytime visits are most easily arranged. Please call ahead. Overnight visits need to be scheduled as far ahead as is reasonably possible. We have a limit to the number of people we can handle at any one time, and an initial visit is usually limited to three days (longer if you are travelling a great distance). Weekdays are preferable to weekends. Please call to arrange specific dates that are mutually convenient. There are also animals here, both wild and domesticated, so if you must bring pets, you may need to keep them in your vehicle.

    We prefer that our visitors participate in the life of the community as much as circumstances allow, Most likely, for those physically able, this will include sharing our work - one of the best ways to get to know Alpha. We do not request monetary contributions, although they are welcome.

    We recommend that visitors first see Alpha-Bit, our store in Mapleton; it is located at the junction of Oregon highways 126 and 36, just over an hour's drive west of Eugene and 14 miles inland from the coastal town of Florence. Detailed directions to the farm may be obtained at Alpha-Bit.

    Please use voice line to schedule visits.
    For further information, we can be reached at:
    Alpha Farm
    Deadwood, OR 97430
    Voice (541)964-5102
    Fax (541)964-3102

    alpha@pioneer.net

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    252. Cedar Village

    Cedar Village

    Cedar Village: A permaculture community, retreat center

    If you are seeking to find your tribe, to find a connection to the land, and to create a living example of a better way to live, join in a dialog with us. We are experienced communitarians forming a permaculture based community that someday will host guests in a retreat/learning center.

    Permaculture is designing our homes to integrate other living systems, both argicultural and natural. Community is living, working together and sharing resources and lives. The retreat center is about hosting guests and visitors and providing a space for learning to occur.

    We are looking to locate in western Washington, and have begun holding orientation and vision sharing meetings. We are kid friendly, consensus based, nature students and gardeners, envision small private homes, some shared homes, a large community center, growing food and homegrown businesses. Looking for 12-14 committed people to get started.

    We are looking for people who have experience living in intentional communities, and who love nature, gardening, and outdoors work. We will not begin looking for a site until we have 8 partners signed on. This is a long term project with a vision and operating goals that span 100 years. For more details about our vision, make contact.
    Write to us:
    Cedar Village
    22110 East Lost Lake Rd.
    Snohomish, WA 98296

    floriferous@msn.com

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    Washington (Snohomish) No land yet.

    253. Cerro Gordo Community

    Cerro Gordo Community

    Cerro Gordo is an intentional community; an eco-village. Yes, these are good current buzz words, but they also indicate a philosophy of doing things a little differently, a little more harmoniously.

    Our goal is to have a small pedestrian village, a lodge and conference area, houses gathered into clusters, and small businesses, all set in less than 200 acres, preserving over 1000 acres of forest, meadows and streams. Over 450 acres are currently being maintained in sustainable forestry. The community is being designed to limit use of autos, promote renewable energy sources, and design resource and energy efficient homes using less-toxic materials. Also, Cerro Gordo is being laid out as a self-sufficient township, with opportunities for small companies in organic agriculture, cottage crafts and artisans, and manufacturing and service sectors.

    We are fashioning a town that reintegrates our inner selves with the global human community and the biosphere. We wish to give people a much greater opportunity to interact and work with their neighbors and with nature, fostering a sense of inner wealth and contribution. We seek to join in work and in play, to enjoy the challenges of a new/old way of life, to make space for a deeper appreciation of kindred souls.

    Cerro Gordo is an exploration, a process, a vision, a step in the right direction. It is not a "done deal"; there is room for individual dreams to meld with the current plans.

    Cerro Gordo is 20 miles south from Eugene, Oregon, USA, giving excellent access to urban centers while feeling isolated. It is comprised of almost 1200 acres of Douglas fir and cedar forest, with stands of oak and mixed hardwoods. 3 large meadows are seasonally rampant with wildflowers and deliver stunning views to the south-east over Dorena Lake and up into the Cascade Mtns. Several seasonal streams run through the property. Since the project occupies most of a small watershed, the ecology and identity can be preserved. The climate is benign but wet, with rainfall of 40-50 inches per year and temperatures of 50-80 deg. F, with extremes from the 20's to 90's.

    Many levels of participation are available, from Town Forum supporters receiving publications and benefits annually, all the way up to pioneer homebuilders.

    You can also reach us the old fashioned way at:
    The Cerro Gordo Town Forum, Inc.
    Dorena Lake, Box 569
    Cottage Grove, Oregon 97424
    (541) 942-7720

    cerrogordo@igc.apc.org

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    254. Lichen Co-op

    Lichen Co-op

    Lichen, established in 71 as a cooperative land conservancy/trust, is a community of organisms living and growing together for mutual benefit. Our facilities include a community building, four satellite retreats, a lab, shop, small solar greenhouse, and garden area. Most of our 140 acres are devoted to a wildlife refuge and environmental sanctuary and, as a result, we now prohibit domestic animals.

    Newcomers might develop their own livelihoods along these lines: present members derive their income from contract services and/or individual home industries -- including lab electromechanics (non-defense); field recording, editing, and producing cassette tapes of nature sounds (especially of birdsong); and craft activities.

    Environmentalism is our nearest approach to a community spirituality, and our philosophy of personal growth is based on the individual's development within the community context -- rather than having the community be a hodgepodge of individualized traits. We expect members to commit substantial time and energy to community projects and issues.

    Agreed upon expenses for space, utilities, food, taxes, and capital are shared; remaining personal earnings are used at individual discretion. We like a varied diet, mostly vegetarian. We come together for some meals, work projects, and meetings. Childcare is by family/parent(s), but shared at times by others. Visitors are welcome with advance arrangements.

    For more information, please write--include significant information about yourself and enclose a SASE. A couple of dollars to help with other correspondence expenses would be appreciated.
    Lichen
    P.O. Box 25
    Wolf Creek, OR 97497
    (503)866-2665 7 - 8am best
    No Email address known

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    280. Northeastern Oregon.

    We have 25 acres of land in Northeastern Oregon. We will probably be moving to a larger location sometime next year. We have a web site and are including the link, below.

    Thanks
    Our phone number is 541-975-2090.
    Victor Forsythe

    Come visit the page on the Cooperative.

    An angelic vision of the future ::Birth of an Angel::

    VEGIVIC@aol.com

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    331. Northeast Oregon

    We have a community in Northeast Oregon.
    Gwen Hood

    GHOOD@webtv.net

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    "Other" Intentional Communities in OREGON

    Breitenbush Community
    Du-má
    Eloin Community
    Eugene Cohousing
    International Puppydogs
    Jesuit Vol Corps NW
    Lost Valley Educ Center
    Owl Farm
    Seven C's Enter-Networking Cohousing Estate
    Steppingwoods
    Vision Foundation
    We'Moon Healing Ground
    Wolf Creek Sanctuary
    Womanshare

    For an Explanation of "other"

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    Still Another Survival Community

    Do you know of another survival community? If so, please tell us at:

    Survival@webpal.org

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