Coos Bay

The Coquille want to build a bingo hall in Medford, about 165 miles from tribal headquarters along the southwestern Oregon coast in Coos Bay and North Bend.

In this research, Rivers examined snags near Coos Bay in a pair of study sites that total 7.5 square kilometers in area.

If you’re up for the extended drive, Shores Acres State Park, near Coos Bay, is slated as being the best spot for storm watching in Oregon.

“Or it’ll be somebody you’re sitting next to on your Horizon puddle jumper from Seattle to Coos Bay that says, ‘Oh, do you know about the Langlois hot dog?’

“I knew we were making history,” Walsh told The World newspaper of Coos Bay, Oregon, in 2010.