Born in 1923 in the town of Yamhill, Oregon, to fruit and filbert farmers, Charles, or “Wayne,” as he was known, started his life in the fields and the woods of the Willamette Valley. In nature, he developed a lifelong appreciation of Oregon lands and the tribes that first inhabited the Pacific Northwest. He always carried with him a rugged frontier spirit, romanticizing the days when the West was still wild, when his family settled in the terri…
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