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My wife and I spent four days earlier this week paddling from Coburg to Independence.  The river is truly a treasure with real surprises--swallows as thick as insects and new osprey couples every hundred yards or so until a few miles before Corvallis, the sandstone bluffs at the mouth of the Santiam, a pair of river otters, and the wonderful greenway properties along the entire stretch from Eugene through Portland.  The Willamette is worth visiting and protecting.

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